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Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life by Alastair Brotchie 9780262528436
$95.11This long-awaited biography of Alfred Jarry reconstructs a life both "ubuesque" and pataphysical. When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Paris-but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle... -
A Study Guide for Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375397919
RRP: $20.90$19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375397919Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)... -
100% Blonde Jokes: The Best Dumb, Funny, Clean, Short and Long Blonde Jokes Book by R. Cristi 9780986600418
$17.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986600418Author R. CristiFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Psylon PressPublisher Psylon PressWeight(grams) 116g -
Latin Prose Composition: Key by M. A. North 9780715614082
RRP: $46.18$45.97This book provides the key for teachers using North and Hillard's classic text, Latin Prose Composition, which has been in use throughout the world for over 100 years. The book provides the answers to the English to Latin composition exercises given in... -
A New History of Early English Drama by John D. Cox 9780231102438
RRP: $94.50$75.01For many years the study of pre-seventeenth-century English drama was shaped largely by an understanding that everything written revolved around the individual author, either as part of the tradition that prepared the way for Shakespeare or as part of... -
A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama by Rosario Castellanos
RRP: $58.78$51.53Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro by Andrew Bennett 9781108822022
RRP: $48.28$41.08The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro offers an accessible introduction to key aspects of the novelist's remarkable body of work. The volume addresses Ishiguro's engagement with fundamental questions of humanity and personal responsibility, with... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault by Prof. Lisa Downing 9780521682992
RRP: $41.98$35.97French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. His work on the institutions of mental health and medicine, the history of systems of knowledge,... -
The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation Trevor Owens 9781421426976
RRP: $64.05$62.90A guide to managing data in the digital age.Winner of the ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Winner of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award by the Society of American ArchivistsMany people... -
Historicism by Paul Hamilton
RRP: $41.98$37.15Historicism is the essential introduction to the field, providing its readers with the necessary knowledge, background and vocabulary to apply it in their own studies. Paul Hamilton's compact and comprehensive guide:* explains the theory and basics of... -
On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
RRP: $35.68$23.02Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political... -
The Poetry of Praise by J. A. Burrow 9780521175463
RRP: $77.68$63.69One of the chief functions of poetry in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was to praise gods, people and things. Heroes and kings were glorified in many varieties of praise, and the arts of encomium and panegyric were codified by classical... -
Historia Augusta: Volume III by David Magie
RRP: $52.40$49.90March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a ... -
The Poems of John Keats: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by John Strachan 9780415234788
RRP: $41.98$37.15This sourcebook offers the ideal introduction to the work of John Keats, a central figure in English Romanticism and one of the most popular poets in the literary canon.The sourcebook is arranged in four sections: Contexts, Interpretations, Key Poems and... -
Beowulf SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 18 SparkNotes 9781411469440
RRP: $12.58$9.58When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and... -
On the Water by Hans Maarten van den Brink 9780571209248
RRP: $20.98$20.16'I am holding on to that summer, not just in my thoughts but with my whole body, from my numb fingers down to my toes. The summer when the river was ours, and so was the boathouse, the city, the meadows and the reeds at the water's edge. Happiness only... -
Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires Lucy Bland (University of North London) 9780745619835
RRP: $39.88$35.97Sexology in Culture examines the impact of key writings by sexologists on English-speaking culture from the 1880s to the early 1940s. How influential a field was sexology during this period, and how much power did sexologists wield? What was the impact... -
The Death of Camus by Giovanni Catelli 9781787383869
RRP: $31.48$29.06In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of... -
Selected Poetry by John Keats
RRP: $18.88$13.97John Keats's abiding poetic legacy is one of extraordinary and triumphant richness. Before the moment of `self-will' when he declared his intention to be a poet, Keats (1795-1821) had chosen the medical profession. His apothecary's training... -
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Daniel Hahn 9780199695140
RRP: $72.43$54.92The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that... -
Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History by Ross Hamilton 9780226821047
RRP: $54.60$52.19From ancient philosophy to Tristram Shandy and Buster Keaton movies, this book tells the engaging history of accident as an idea. An accidental glance at a newspaper notice causes Rousseau to collapse under the force of a vision. A car accidentally... -
Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contemporary Texts and their Cultural Contexts by Philip C. Almond 9780521037129
RRP: $94.48$80.93This book is exclusively devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England. It offers modernized versions of the most significant early modern texts on nine cases of demonic possession from the period 1570 to 1650, the key period in... -
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard 9780804722155
$60.88An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and itnerest it can be compared with Freud's... -
Milton Poems John Milton 9781857157291
RRP: $20.98$15.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Aphra Behn Studies by Janet Todd 9780521119641
RRP: $83.98$69.85Aphra Behn was England's first professional woman writer, but her status as a major author has only recently become clear. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Behn was denigrated for her 'unwomanly' subject matter and intellectual immodesty... -
A Saint in Swindon by Alice Jolly 9781912054206
RRP: $16.78$12.35When a stranger arrives in town, with a bulging blue bag and a whiff of adventure, the neighbourhood takes notice. When he asks for his meals to be sent to his room and peace and quiet for reading, curiosity turns to obsession. Each day he stays there,... -
Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature by Asja Szafraniec
RRP: $50.38$43.76The late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature is explored in this new study. Starting with Derrida's self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett, whom Derrida nevertheless considered one of the most interesting and exemplary... -
Anti-Racist Shakespeare by Ambereen Dadabhoy 9781009001328
RRP: $35.70$30.91Anti-Racist Shakespeare argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. Our study outlines the necessary theoretical foundations for educators to develop a critical understanding of the longue duree of racial formation... -
The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura 9780231163026
RRP: $46.20$36.46Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United... -
A Book for Her by Bridget Christie
RRP: $23.08$18.08Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women's Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever. A Book For Her details Christie's twelve years of anonymous toil in the... -
William Morris: Selected Writings Dr Ingrid Hanson 9780192894816
RRP: $231.00$230.08This newly selected edition of William Morris's works brings together poetry and prose, lectures, articles, and letters from his life, ordered chronologically, with an introduction highlighting his pressing and prescient writing on matters of the natural... -
Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings by David Womersley 9780198859246
RRP: $54.58$52.84This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the edition enables students to study Johnson's work in... -
Critic at Large: Essays and Rreviews 2010-2022 by DJ Taylor 9781915553195
RRP: $21.00$17.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553195Author DJ TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press -
Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad by Prof Jonathan L. Ready 9780192870971
RRP: $174.30$159.05This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Immersion,... -
The Otherwise: The Screenplay for a Horror Film That Never Was by Mark E Smith
RRP: $41.98$28.46Apologies 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 -
Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World by Michael Holquist 9780415280082
RRP: $54.58$47.52Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. Widely acknowledged as an exceptional guide to Bakhtin and dialogics, this book now includes a new introduction, concluding chapter... -
Basti by Intizar Husain
RRP: $35.68$24.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175828Author Intizar HusainFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky 9781565125131
RRP: $41.98$30.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565125131Author Aaron LanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
The Ethical Detective: Moral Philosophy and Detective Fiction by Rachel Haliburton 9781498536820
RRP: $77.70$68.59Detective fiction and philosophy3/4moral philosophy in particular3/4may seem like an odd combination. Working within the framework offered by neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, this book makes the case that moral philosophers ought to take murder mysteries... -
How To Read Montaigne by Terence Cave 9781862079441
RRP: $18.88$13.19Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the 'subject' or the 'self'. Terence Cave discusses these and other...