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Apologia. Florida. De Deo Socratis by Apuleius
RRP: €29.69€27.83Oratory and philosophy from a Latin novelist.Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. AD 125 in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens,... -
The Poetry of Praise by J. A. Burrow 9780521175463
RRP: €44.02€36.09One 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... -
The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading by William J. Richardson
RRP: €39.27€35.60In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed an interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radical new concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far reaching claims about language and truth provoked a... -
The Aeneid of Virgil, 35th Anniversary Edition by Virgil 9780520254152
RRP: €29.75€23.79This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume... -
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Philip Zaleski 9780374536251
€18.17In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. Lewis maps the medieval mind, accepts Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, becomes a world-famous evangelist and... -
Queer Gothic by George Haggerty
RRP: €22.60€19.90Discovering gothic fictionDiscovering gothic fiction's role in the development of sexualityReviews"An important book... Haggerty leads the way in redirecting our gaze towards where there is an absence of love between men rather than the suspicion of sex... -
On the Water by Hans Maarten van den Brink 9780571209248
RRP: €11.89€11.13'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... -
Beautiful Angiola: The Lost Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Laura Gonzenbach by Jack Zipes
RRP: €41.64€37.90In one of the most startling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasure trove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura Gonzenbach, a talented Swiss-German born in Sicily, set... -
Queen of Spades by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9781853993138
RRP: €27.36€27.19Pikovaia dama (The Queen of Spades) has continued to fascinate readers since its first publication in 1834, and has been successfully adapted to both operatic stage and screen. The most generally admired of Pushkin's stories, it has earned a high place... -
Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination by Professor James Porter 9781648250347
RRP: €47.60€45.87Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in... -
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
RRP: €29.75€23.31Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies," this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from Restoration comedies to Tennyson's Princess."One of the most influential... -
The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice: A Tiny Homeric Epic by A E Stallings 9781589881426
RRP: €24.98€16.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881426Author A E StallingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 234g -
How to Read a Shakespeare Play by David Bevington 9781405113960
RRP: €28.50€24.95This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare's works for pleasure. Encourages readers to approach Shakespeare's works aggressively, interactively, and questioningly Focuses on six... -
Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment by Imre Szeman
RRP: €35.69€32.01How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another-from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever... -
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness by Marlon B. Ross
RRP: €30.93€27.24In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality,... -
Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures by Richard North 9781408247709
RRP: €52.35€51.48The Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures provides a scholarly and accessible introduction to the literature which was the inspiration for many of the heroes of modern popular culture, from The Lord of the Rings to... -
Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr 9780820324289
€32.05How lyric poetry transforms frauma; Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and... -
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Daniel Hahn 9780199695140
RRP: €41.04€31.12The 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... -
Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction: An Analytical History by Leroy Lad Panek 9781476687520
RRP: €47.59€39.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476687520Author Leroy Lad PanekFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g -
Butler Plays 2: Airbag; I'll Be the Devil; Faces in the Crowd; Juicy Fruits; 69; Do It! by Leo Butler
RRP: €26.17€25.04Butler Plays: Two brings together a selection of Leo Butler's work, currently both published and previously unpublished, covering the years 2007 to 2013. It showcases his incredible variety in style and tone, and brings together some of his best-loved... -
Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contemporary Texts and their Cultural Contexts by Philip C. Almond 9780521037129
RRP: €53.54€45.86This 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
€32.44An 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... -
Aphra Behn Studies by Janet Todd 9780521119641
RRP: €47.59€39.58Aphra 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... -
Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature by Asja Szafraniec
RRP: €28.55€24.80The 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... -
Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism by Christopher Taylor
RRP: €27.36€23.81Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race... -
Anti-Racist Shakespeare by Ambereen Dadabhoy 9781009001328
RRP: €20.23€17.52Anti-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: €26.18€20.66Winner 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... -
Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet'' by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: €16.65€13.29For more than ninety years, eager writers and young poets, even those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars assumed that the... -
William Morris: Selected Writings Dr Ingrid Hanson 9780192894816
RRP: €130.90€130.38This 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... -
Ecofeminism, Second Edition: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth by Carol J. Adams
RRP: €29.74€27.68This new edition of Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth begins with an historical, grounding overview that situates ecofeminist theory and activism within the larger field of ecocriticism and provides a timeline for... -
Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow by Jacqueline Allan
RRP: €7.74€7.27Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman's work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns... -
Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings by David Womersley 9780198859246
RRP: €30.93€29.94This 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... -
The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries by Katie Ritson
RRP: €45.21€39.72Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of... -
Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain by Thomas A. Prendergast
RRP: €69.02€59.70In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women, primarily writers, poets, and playwrights, are interred, with many more memorialized. From the time of the reburial of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1556, the... -
Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad by Prof Jonathan L. Ready 9780192870971
RRP: €98.77€90.13This 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 Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing by Arnold Weinstein 9780691177304
RRP: €29.75€23.30A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our livesWhy do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us... -
Medieval Drama: An Anthology by Greg Walker
RRP: €46.35€41.89This comprehensive anthology brings together a diverse collection of dramatic writing from the late fourteenth century to the onset of the Renaissance. The volume presents for the first time the key plays of the period in their entirety, alongside more... -
David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross: Text and Performance by Leslie Kane
RRP: €46.40€40.72The 12 original and two classic essays offer a dialectic on performance and structure, and substantially advance our knowledge of this seminal playwright. The commentaries examine feminism, pernicious nostalgia, ethnicity, the mythological land motif,... -
Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena by Philomena Cunk 9781538766767
RRP: €35.70€20.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538766767Author Philomena CunkFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology by W. J. T. Mitchell 9780226532295
RRP: €27.37€26.33"[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read."-Rudolf Arnheim, Times...