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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,... -
Merlin: The Prophet and His History by Geoffrey Ashe
RRP: £9.99£7.55Geoffrey Ashe's book on this legendary figure offers a succession of surprises. The Merlin of legend was born to be a magician. He was 'immaculately' conceived and was able to interpret dreams and utter prophecies. Even his fate was imbued with magic... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 2: From Aristarchus to Pappus by I. Thomas 9780674993990
RRP: £24.95£23.39Elemental learning.The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical... -
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... -
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula by David J. Skal
RRP: £16.99£15.01Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as Count Dracula, has remained an enigma. David J. Skal, in a psychological and cultural portrait, exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker... -
Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson by Professor Daniel G. Donoghue 9781843847113
RRP: £95.00£90.68New and exciting scholarship on medieval and early modern English culture in all its diversity. This book honours James Simpson, an enormously influential figure in English literary studies. Known for championing once-neglected writers such as Gower,... -
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... -
Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: £9.99£9.22This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Christopher Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus. The new introduction by Brian Gibbons explores the plays in the... -
The Art of Fact: a Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism by Kevin Kerrane
RRP: £20.99£14.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684846309Author Kevin KerraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm *... -
Transdisciplinary Beckett - Visual Arts, Music, and the Creative Process by Lucy Jeffery
£67.50This 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... -
Brodsky Among Us: A Memoir by Ellendea Proffer Teasley 9781618115782
RRP: £77.99£74.60A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans... -
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect by Kester Rattenbury 9781848222502
RRP: £39.99£30.73Thomas 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,... -
On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist: Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin by Michael Harding
RRP: £13.99£9.20One day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden, he found himself falling back into the old religious devotions of an earlier time. The meaning he had found through years of engagement with... -
The Psychology of Harry Potter: An Unauthorized Examination Of The Boy Who Lived by Neil Mulholland
RRP: £12.99£12.13Harry 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... -
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... -
Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City by Alev Adil 9780863566745
RRP: £12.99£8.60Cyprus' 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... -
Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer by Pramoedya Ananta Toer 9781931859288
RRP: £14.99£9.88In 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... -
How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ
RRP: £16.99£15.07Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women's Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle-and not so subtle-strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who... -
Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology by David Fairer
RRP: £33.95£30.98Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation. Balanced to... -
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... -
Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm 9781350200258
RRP: £12.99£11.86'A spicy work of biographical conjecture ... It's also a rousing reminder of the countless creative women who have been written out of history or have had to fight relentlessly to make themselves heard.' EVENING STANDARD 'The great virtue of Lloyd... -
From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play by Victor Turner 9780933826175
£18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933826175Author Victor TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Performing Arts JournalsPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams) 171g -
The Beatest State in the Union: An Anthology of Beat Texas Writing by Christopher Carmona 9781942956082
RRP: £29.95£18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942956082Author Christopher CarmonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams)... -
One Man Show: Poetics and Presence in the <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i> by Katherine Kretler
RRP: £20.95£16.88This book plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. Despite academic focus on orality and on composition in performance, we have yet to fully appreciate the Iliad and Odyssey as the sophisticated scripts that they are. What... -
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Philip Ball
RRP: £27.00£22.88Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time-fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them-and still living them-today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many... -
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... -
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 by Peter Cole
RRP: £30.00£23.69Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse... -
The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus by Andrew Klavan
RRP: £18.99£15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310364610Author Andrew KlavanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 148mm * 26mm -
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... -
Selected Essays of Wilson Harris by Wilson Harris
RRP: £43.99£38.44Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. ... -
Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost by Bjoern Quiring
RRP: £39.99£35.06Focusing on John Milton's Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law - an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In... -
Fictionality by Karen Petroski 9780367752293
RRP: £19.99£17.69Does fiction enhance reality, or threaten our sense of what is real? What, if anything, is special about experiencing fictional works and worlds? Today we speak casually of parallel universes and virtual reality; how much do we really know about what... -
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature by Gregory Claeys 9780521714143
RRP: £26.99£22.80Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the... -
Hontology: Depressive anthropology and the shame of life by Mark Payne 9781785357312
RRP: £7.99£7.02Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx has had an enormous influence on recent thought about the fate of human capabilities in late capitalism, especially in Europe. Hontology explores a road not taken in Specters of Marx - the idea that shame is the route... -
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature by Evgeny Dobrenko 9780521698047
RRP: £25.99£21.99In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific... -
The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness by Barbara Johnson
RRP: £25.99£24.67This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by Edwin Williamson
RRP: £23.99£20.37Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction... -
On the Natural Faculties by Galen
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was raised, then the work of Galen, who lived some six... -
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life by Mari Ruti
RRP: £20.00£15.89Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud's idea of penis envy, Ruti's... -
R. S. Thomas by Tony Brown 9780708321935
RRP: £7.99£6.16At his death in 2000, R.S. Thomas was widely considered to be one of the major poets of the English-speaking world, having been nominated for the Nobel prize for Literature. With Dylan Thomas, R.S. Thomas is probably Wales' best-known poet...