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Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
RRP: £38.00£30.41After centuries of oppressive Ottoman rule, the Arab world began to find new vitality and freedom in the twentieth century. The accompanying resurgence of creative expression is splendidly reflected in this definitive anthology of contemporary Arabic... -
The Sonnet by Stephen Regan 9780198838869
RRP: £28.99£25.76The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, and still used centuries later by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, and Carol Ann Duffy. This... -
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Commentary for Students by David Raeburn 9780199595617
RRP: £23.99£22.37This commentary discusses Aeschylus' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the first to be published in English since 1958. It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling... -
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra 9780871406705
RRP: £22.50£17.99Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of... -
Shakespeare's Comedies: A Very Short Introduction by Bart van Es
RRP: £8.99£6.45From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he... -
On the Name by Jacques Derrida 9780804725552
RRP: £19.99£17.54"The name: What does one call thus? What does one understand under the name of name? And what occurs when one gies a name? What does one give then? One does not offer a thing, one delivers nothing, and still something comes to be, which comes down to... -
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species by Ursula K. Heise
RRP: £24.00£23.03We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public's attention through... -
The Apostolic Fathers: v. 1 by Bart D. Ehrman 9780674996076
RRP: £24.95£23.23Enduring and influential early Christian texts.The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament times. Some of them were accorded almost Scriptural authority... -
Reading North Korea: An Ethnological Inquiry by Sonia Ryang
RRP: £33.95£27.41Often depicted as one of the world's most strictly isolationist and relentlessly authoritarian regimes, North Korea has remained terra incognita to foreign researchers as a site for anthropological fieldwork. Given the difficulty of gaining access to the... -
Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson
RRP: £29.00£22.94Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death... -
Media Semiotics: An Introduction by Jonathan Bignell
RRP: £14.99£13.64Media semiotics is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. Using examples such as Big Brother and Billy Elliot, Jonathan Bignell steps easily from basic concepts to more complex theories, while devoting chapters to... -
The Critical Writings of Ingeborg Bachmann by Ingeborg Bachmann
RRP: £95.00£91.08The first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, novelist, and public intellectual, one of the most influential postwar writers in German. The Austrian Ingeborg Bachmann... -
Caran An-t-saoghail (The Wiles of the World): An Anthology of Nineteenth-century Gaelic Verse by Donald E. Meek
RRP: £25.00£17.32The Highlands and Islands of Scotland experienced massive changes during the nineteenth century. Economic restructuring, introducing sheep and deer and encouraging clearance and eviction, is the best known change, but it was by no means the only one. ... -
AntiPoems: New and Selected by Nicanor Parra 9780811209601
RRP: £12.99£12.76Antipoems: New and Selected, a fresh bilingual gathering as well as retrospective of the work of Chile's foremost poet, reintroduces him to North American readers after thirteen years. Though he has been hardly unproductive, the politics of his homeland... -
Moralia: v.13 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.39Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
On Buildings by Procopius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Late antique architecture.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 ... -
Heroides by Ovid 9780674990456
RRP: £24.95£24.54Two early works by the consummate Latin love poet.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at... -
Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship by Professor Karl Kügle 9781837650057
RRP: £29.99£29.24The first collection of essays in the English language dedicated to the cultural achievements and politics of one of the most important ruling houses of late medieval Europe. The house of Luxembourg between 1308 and 1437 is best known today for its... -
The People's Favourite Poems: Out and about with Kipling, Larkin and the rest by Gary Dexter 9781910400982
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400982Author Gary DexterFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Book Parts by Dennis Duncan 9780198885443
RRP: £18.99£16.32What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it at the front and back of the book, there are dozens of... -
Superman is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way by Harry Brod 9781416595304
£23.14In Superman Is Jewish? Harry Brod reveals the links between Jews and superheroes in a penetrating investigation of iconic comic book figures. He describes how the role of each hero reflects the evolution of the Jewish place in American culture-an alien... -
The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax by Danell Jones 9781805260066
RRP: £20.00£17.84A new look at a revolutionary writer, a diverse imperial city, and a controversial trick on the Royal Navy. In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and... -
From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World by Pamela H. Smith 9780226818245
RRP: £28.00£27.39How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople began to write down their making practices... -
Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater by Eddie Shapiro
RRP: £23.49£21.70In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations with twenty leading women of Broadway. He carefully selected Tony Award-winning stars who have spent the majority of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe by Patrick Cheney
RRP: £26.99£22.80The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe, first published in 2004, provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls that Marlowe was an inventor of the English history... -
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... -
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years by Cathy Guisewite
RRP: £24.99£14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735218420Author Kathy GuisewiteFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
The Theology of Samuel Beckett by John Calder
RRP: £9.99£7.94Like 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£7.72A 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... -
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817 - 2020 by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
RRP: £31.00£30.19Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this trope... -
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
RRP: £14.99£11.76The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines,... -
Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro by Melissa McCarthy 9781952386657
RRP: £19.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952386657Author Melissa McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams)... -
The Otherwise: The Screenplay for a Horror Film That Never Was by Mark E Smith
RRP: £19.99£14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689186Author Mark E SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor PressWeight(grams) 137g -
Dyskolos: 2-volume set by Menander 9780929524207
RRP: £14.99£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524207Author MenanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 140g -
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... -
Theory of Literature by Paul H. Fry
£17.06Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying... -
The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred by Professor Todd McGowan
RRP: £17.99£15.94What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious investment in a fundamental racist fantasy. As long as this... -
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... -
Republics and Kingdoms Compared by Aurelio Lippo Brandolini
RRP: £29.95£23.66Aurelio Lippo Brandolini's Republics and Kingdoms Compared is the most fascinating and least-known work of humanist political theory before Machiavelli. A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca. 1490), the work depicts... -
August Wilson's Fences by Ladrica Menson-Furr
£19.04This title provides a guide to the political and historical context of the 1950s and to the African American cultural context.August Wilson is generally acknowledged to be the most respected African American playwright. His cycle of plays spanning the...