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The True Performing Of It by Andrew Muir
RRP: £15.99£11.42The True Performing Of It places the two writers side by side and examines the resultant analogies in their work that spring from this positioning. After a teasing prologue, the book begins by reflecting on the significance of Dylan's remarks on... -
Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction by David Farrier 9781517906269
RRP: £17.99£16.15How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time The Anthropocene describes how humanity has radically intruded into deep time, the vast timescales that shape the Earth system... -
The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry by Michael Ferber 9780521154376
RRP: £22.99£19.04The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Blake and Shelley - whilst also... -
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges 9780802130303
RRP: £12.99£8.87The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant... -
Contemporary Women's Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice by Alison Mark 9780333734384
RRP: £44.99£44.97Contemporary Women's Poetry is a unique resource for students, teachers, and anyone interest in contemporary poetry. It offers the opportunity for readers to engage with the work of important figures and issues in contemporary women's poetry from two... -
Mortal Beauty, God's Grace: Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9780375725661
RRP: £17.50£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725661Author Gerard Manley HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn
RRP: £33.00£30.75Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from... -
Yoruba Proverbs by Oyekan Owomoyela
RRP: £32.00£28.83Yoruba Proverbs is the most comprehensive collection to date of more than five thousand Yoruban proverbs that showcase Yoruba oral tradition. Following Oyekan Owomoyela's introduction, which provides a framework and description of Yoruba cultural... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge by John Worthen 9780521746434
RRP: £18.99£16.18Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel', and co-author with Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and thinkers of the Romantic revolution. This innovative... -
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
£99.16Orlando, a novel loosely based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf's lover and friend, is one of Woolf's most playful and tantalizing works. This edition provides readers with a fully collated and annotated text. A substantial introduction... -
The Life of Bishop Wilfrid by Eddius Stephanus 9780521313872
RRP: £39.99£33.26The Life of Wilfrid offers us a graphic portrait of one of the most forceful characters in the history of the English Church: a man courageous and energetic yet at the same time litigious, ostentatious and overbearing, his life punctuated by restless... -
Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction by Kimberley Reynolds 9780230239371
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and multi-media. It looks at the stories... -
The Pleasures of Exile by Mr George Lamming
RRP: £28.99£22.64'Migration in the 50s and 60s was formative for a whole generation of Caribbean writers, artists and intellectuals who, as Lamming himself says, became 'West Indian' in London. The Pleasures of Exile is simply the most poignant, eloquent, insightful and... -
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman
RRP: £16.99£13.09The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy, shared ambition and subsequent... -
Narratology and Classics: A Practical Guide by Irene J. F. de Jong 9780199688708
£34.90Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, which was developed in the 1960s, has helped us towards a better understanding of the how and why... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
£15.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors make a case... -
Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin
RRP: £22.00£17.36Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers... -
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader by James Shea 9781032272658
RRP: £35.99£31.69An ideal introduction and overview of this popular form Situates Haiku within the broader frame of global/comparative literature for courses in literary studies, Asian studies, comparative literature and creative writing This is the only... -
William Blake: Selected Poems Louise Guinness 9781912945047
RRP: £9.99£7.00This selection of Blake's poetry is packaged in an attractive and collectible format and marketed at an attractive price for the customer. It is part of a series of poetry titles designed to be seen as a set.Book InformationISBN 9781912945047Author... -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Colin Burrow
RRP: £48.99£37.56Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and... -
The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: £30.00£22.82The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year... -
George Eliot: Whole Soul by Ilana M. Blumberg 9780192845092
RRP: £30.00£25.95The girl who would become George Eliot began her professional writing life with a poem bidding farewell to all books but the Bible. How did a young Christian poet become the great realist novelist whose commitment to religious freethinking made her so... -
Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale by Danielle M. Roemer 9780814329054
RRP: £28.95£22.81Angela Carter (1940-92) is widely known for her literary fairy tales, particularly those appearing in ""The Bloody Chamber"". Her stylishly creative appropriation and adaptation of fairy-tale patterns, motifs and content are evident... -
Medieval Welsh Literature and its European Contexts: Essays in Honour of Professor Helen Fulton by Victoria Flood 9781843847212
RRP: £80.00£77.21Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has pioneered our understanding of the links between Welsh and... -
Self-portrait by Carla Lonzi
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425088Author Carla LonziFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
On Sophistical Refutations. On Coming-to-be and Passing Away. On the Cosmos Aristotle 9780674994416
RRP: £24.95£24.26Fallacies, contraries, consistencies.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three... -
The British Bonapartes: Napoleon's Family in Britain by Edward Hilary Davis 9781399088527
RRP: £22.00£15.87A hitherto unexamined history presented in a new way of the wider Bonaparte family shedding new light on their eventful lives in Britain. From duels on Wimbledon Common and suicides in Hyde Park, to public lynchings in Shropshire and the sexual... -
Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi 9780691160979
RRP: £30.00£24.06It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary,... -
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World by Daniel Sherrell
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136538Author Daniel SherrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Complaints from Middle England by Nigel Cawthorne 9781783342013
RRP: £9.99£8.40The very best outrage from the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, the newspaper that coined the phrase 'Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells' for grumpy complaints.Book InformationISBN 9781783342013Author Nigel CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gibson... -
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire by Walter Benjamin 9780674022874
RRP: £23.95£19.44Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire... -
A New History of German Literature by David E. Wellbery
RRP: £46.95£39.37The revolutionary spirit that animates the culture of the Germans has been alive for at least twelve centuries, far longer than the dramatically fragmented and reshaped political entity known as Germany. German culture has been central to Europe, and it... -
The History of Gothic Fiction by Markman Ellis
RRP: £31.00£28.91The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Approaching key... -
Gilles Deleuze by Claire Colebrook
RRP: £25.99£22.63Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in order to be clever, but because thinking transforms life. Why read literature? Not for pure entertainment, Deleuze tells us, but because literature can recreate the boundaries of life. With his emphasis on... -
Middle English Lyrics by Richard L. Hoffman
RRP: £17.99£15.39It is the only anthology which includes all thirty-one English lyrics from MS Harley 2253, all the verses by Friar Herebert printed in Brown XIV, and all the important poems given in Robbins' Secular Lyrics. In all there are 245 lyrics, arranged... -
Cinema/Politics/Philosophy by Nico Baumbach 9780231184236
RRP: £25.00£19.59Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni published the manifesto "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism," helping to set the agenda for a generation of film theory that used cinema as a means of critiquing capitalist ideology. In recent decades,... -
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper
RRP: £13.99£12.80It's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen knowledge and deep love for all things literary,... -
Hellenica: Bks. 1-4 by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.76A continuation of Thucydides.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After... -
BESS of Hardwick: New Perspectives by Lisa Hopkins 9781526101297
RRP: £90.00£50.47Bess of Hardwick was one of the most extraordinary figures of Elizabethan England. She was born the daughter of a country squire. But by the end of her long life (which a recent redating of her birth suggests was even longer than previously thought)... -
An Analysis of Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population Nick Broten 9781912127788
RRP: £6.50£6.29Thomas Robert Malthus' 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population helped change the direction of economics, politics, and the natural sciences with its reasoning and problem solving. The central topic of the essay was the idea, extremely prevalent in the...