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Enthusiast!: Essays on Modern American Literature by David Herd
RRP: £19.99£14.52Enthusiast! 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... -
For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India by Anjali R. Arondekar
RRP: £20.99£18.37Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a... -
Cultural Capital: Problem of Literary Canon Formation by John Guillory
RRP: £28.00£27.39John Guillory challenges the most fundamental premises of the canon debate by resituating the problem of canon formation in an entirely new theoretical framework. The result is a book that promises to recast not only the debate about the literary... -
Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology by Daniel Dinello 9780292709867
RRP: £25.99£22.49Techno-heaven or techno-hell? If you believe many scientists working in the emerging fields of twenty-first-century technology, the future is blissfully bright. Initially, human bodies will be perfected through genetic manipulation and the fusion of... -
Maus Now by Art Spiegelman
RRP: £20.00£14.29A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about... -
The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450-1600 by Jonathan J. G. Alexander
RRP: £55.00£48.09A comprehensive survey examining the vibrant and sumptuous art of illumination during a period of profound intellectual and cultural transformation Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance,... -
Birds: WITH Lysistrata AND Thesmophoria by Aristophanes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The master of Old Comedy.Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and... -
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark 9780307951267
RRP: £25.00£15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2020. Short-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2020 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2020 and Pulitzer Prize... -
Dietland: (TV Tie-in) by Sarai Walker
RRP: £8.99£6.08Dietland 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... -
Prose: The Centenary Edition by Elizabeth Bishop 9780701186272
RRP: £18.99£14.01Although Elizabeth Bishop is perhaps better known as a masterful poet, she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as this centenary edition of her prose demonstrates. From her witty, unforgettable portraits of Marianne Moore and the Sitwells to... -
Signs, Symbols and Ciphers: Decoding the Message by Georges Jean
RRP: £7.95£5.58How does a sign represent something other than itself? How do we understand the meaning of a written symbol? Can clothes be a sign? Can sounds? Signs and symbols represent ideas and objects and, over time, these marks and gestures have multiplied into... -
Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms by Jessica Brantley
RRP: £54.00£46.79In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital theoretical questions in medieval literary studies. With nearly... -
Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel by Lisa L. Moore 9780822320494
RRP: £19.99£17.54Refuting 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: £11.99£10.95Apologies 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 -
The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9780393264890
£15.70This second edition also includes: revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface and a note on the text by Leland S. Person; key passages from Hawthorne's notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and... -
A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East by Richard Foltz 9780755649655
RRP: £25.99£21.22In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the... -
Orations. Other Fragments by Cato
RRP: £24.95£23.39Ancient Rome's original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way... -
The Road to Middle-Earth: [How J.R.R. Tolken Created a New Mythology] by T. A. Shippey 9780618257607
RRP: £24.99£16.51Apologies 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 *... -
The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama by Simon Barker 9780415187343
RRP: £39.99£36.06This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays:* The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)* Arden of Faversham (Anon.)* Edward... -
Cicero: Pro Milone by Thomas J. Keeline
RRP: £25.99£22.61The 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... -
The Song of Lunch by Christopher Reid
RRP: £12.99£8.56Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone . . .Christopher Reid's poem, which since its first publication has been filmed by the BBC... -
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays by Peter Lake
RRP: £27.50£23.89A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies,... -
The Gothic by David Punter 9780631220633
RRP: £30.95£27.45This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Explains the origins and development of the term Gothic. Explores the... -
Pro Caecina, etc. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The ascending statesman.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius... -
Julius Caesar: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies 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 -
The Use of Bodies by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £21.99£19.19Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western... -
Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts by Caroline Levine
RRP: £33.95£29.98A provocative and compelling book that explores the complex relationship between democracy and avant-garde art, offering a surprising new perspective on the critical role that the arts play in democratic governance at home and abroad. Covers a broad... -
Ibsen's A Doll's House: A Study Guide by Stephen Unwin
RRP: £9.99£7.27The Nick Hern Books Page to Stage series - highly accessible guides to the world's best-known plays, written by established theatre professionals to show how the plays come to life on the stage. Director Stephen Unwin takes you scene by scene through... -
Quantum Poetics: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures by Gwyneth Lewis
RRP: £9.95£6.78In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by... -
Joyce's Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake by John Bishop 9780299108243
RRP: £32.95£32.81Finnegan's Wake" is perhaps the most difficult and wilfully obscure piece in all of modern literature, a book written in polyglottal puns that continues to baffle not only lay readers but, in large part, Joyceans as well. Here in 12 chapters, John... -
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
£40.81In over 1,000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidance of Professor Jack Zipes. It provides an authoritative reference source for this complex and captivating... -
Re Joyce by Anthony Burgess 9780393004458
RRP: £18.50£15.28Arguing that "the appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke," Burgess provides a readable, accessible guide to the writings of James Joyce.About the AuthorAnthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed,... -
Newid Hinsawdd - Darganfod! by DK 9781804162460 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£5.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804162460Author DKFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Rily Publications LtdPublisher Rily Publications LtdDimensions(mm) 240mm * 187mm * 8mm -
Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction by Michael Scott
RRP: £14.99£9.80Your complete introduction to ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare has been hailed as one of the greatest thinkers of all time, one of the world's finest artists, poets and dramatists. Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction introduces and explains the plays by... -
Big-Time Shakespeare by Michael D. Bristol
RRP: £37.99£33.38Shakespeare has made the big time. No less than the Beatles or Liberace, Elvis Presley or Mick Jagger, Shakespeare is big-time in the idiomatic sense of cultural success and widespread notoriety. Not only has he achieved canonical status, Shakespeare is... -
Curved Air in the 1970s (Decades) by Laura Shenton 9781789520699
RRP: £12.99£9.09Beat Instrumental summed it up in 1971: 'In a few short months Curved Air have emerged from the unknown depths to become one of the most talked-about bands around. By a combination of record company promotion (ranging from ads to that pretty patterned... -
Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss 9780226777115
RRP: £24.00£23.03The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem-the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat... -
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White 9781408707999
RRP: £9.99£7.52'White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way from Orwell to le Carre' Sunday Times, Books of the... -
"In vain I tried to tell you": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics by Dell Hymes 9780803273436
RRP: £23.99£19.51A landmark volume that revolutionized our understanding of the power and significance of Native stories and storytellers in North America, "In vain I tried to tell you" showcases the methodology and theory of ethnopoetics. Focusing on the rich Native... -
Selected Poems: Peter France by Aleksandr Blok
RRP: £9.95£8.29Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived thought his country's savage wars and radical traumas, trying to welcome the new order. But there was no space in it for his kind of imagination. His poem "The Twelve" has claims to being the first great poem of the...