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Sound Objects by James A. Steintrager
RRP: $48.28$42.67Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound's elusive... -
Linear B: An Introduction by J. T. Hooker 9780906515624
$63.69This introduction is suitable for the student with some knowledge of Greek who wishes to have access to Linear B material. Part One places the development of the Linear B script against its historical background; the earlier varieties of Aegean writing... -
COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK by Fred Cooper
RRP: $31.48$28.69This open access book examines the various ways that shame, shaming and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdom's public health response to COVID-19 during 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in 2020, it quickly became clear that... -
Lucan by Charles Tesoriero 9780199277230
$162.08This book makes available in convenient form a selection of seminal articles on the Roman poet Lucan's grim epic, written in the time of Nero, on the world-changing civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the mid first century BC. The selection enables... -
Geoffrey Chaucer: A Very Short Introduction by David Wallace
RRP: $18.88$13.97Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is... -
The Russian Master and other Stories by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $20.98$13.88These stories are translated with an Introduction by Ronald Hingley. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's... -
Blake: The Complete Poems W.H. Stevenson 9781405832809
RRP: $83.98$83.66William Blake (1757 - 1827) is one of the great figures in literature, by turns poet, artist and visonary. Profoundly libertarian in outlook, Blake's engagement with the issues of his day is well known and this - along with his own idiosynratic concerns... -
Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" by Norbert Schurer 9780826415752
$35.97Continuum Contemporaries give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been... -
Jane Austen's Emma by John Sutherland
RRP: $18.88$13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776137Author John SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism by Jerome J. McGann
RRP: $84.00$66.74"English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to... -
Bakhtin and his Others: (Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism by Liisa Steinby 9781783083312
RRP: $52.50$50.72'Bakhtin and his Others' aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin's ideas on... -
The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Three Translations of the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam 9780974566719
$30.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974566719Author Omar KhayyamFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Bardic PressPublisher Bardic PressWeight(grams) 318g -
Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest by Mireille Rosello
RRP: $50.38$43.76In recent years, hospitality has emerged as a category in French thinking for addressing a range of issues associated with immigration and other types of journeys. Rosello's book concentrates primarily on France and its former colonies in North and... -
Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History by Ian Baucom
RRP: $50.38$45.28In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance claim for their lost "cargo." Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist... -
The Art Of Subtext: Beyond Plot by Charles Baxter 9781555974732
RRP: $23.08$17.58Discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed and the secreted. Using an array of examples from melville to Dostoevsky and contemporary writers Paula Fox, Edward P... -
The Poet's Mistake by Erica McAlpine
RRP: $58.80$46.49What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes. Poetry-even by the greats-is rife with mistakes. In... -
Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt Stephen Quirke (University College London, UK) 9781444332001
RRP: $58.70$51.72Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt offers a stimulating overview of the study of ancient Egyptian religion by examining research drawn from beyond the customary boundaries of Egyptology and shedding new light on entrenched assumptions. Discusses the... -
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 9780060175962
RRP: $48.30$31.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (General Nonfiction) 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780060175962Author Simon WinchesterFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint... -
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis by Caroline Levine 9780691250588
RRP: $42.00$33.37An argument that humanists have the tools—and the responsibility—to mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic... -
How To Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels by Mark Newgarden
RRP: $58.78$49.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606993613Author Mark NewgardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
A Dictionary of Shakespeare by Stanley Wells
RRP: $25.18$19.24Compiled by the general editor of The Oxford Shakespeare, and one of the best-known authorities on the playwright's works, this dictionary offers information on all aspects of Shakespeare, both in his own time and in later ages. The wide-ranging... -
The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot by Nancy Henry 9780521670975
RRP: $39.88$33.98As the author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, George Eliot was one of the most admired novelists of the Victorian period, and she remains a central figure in the literary canon today. She was the first woman to take on the kind of political and... -
The People's Favourite Poems: Out and about with Kipling, Larkin and the rest by Gary Dexter
RRP: $27.28$23.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400616Author Gary DexterFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading by William J. Richardson
RRP: $69.30$63.32In 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... -
Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
RRP: $56.68$50.57Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the "hermeneutic of suspicion" widespread in current... -
The Frontier People of Roman Britain by Peter Salway 9780521093156
RRP: $77.68$63.69The Frontier area of northern England is the most important and reliable source for archaeologists in existence. The perpetuation of the Roman imperial ideal, the survival of classical art and literature, and the spread of the Christian faith depended on... -
Autobiographies by W. B. Yeats 9780684853383
$51.85Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry by Alex Davis
RRP: $69.28$59.70This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde... -
The Field of Drama: How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen by Martin Esslin 9780413192608
RRP: $48.28$47.99A unique book of criticism that brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework Martin Esslin is the author of seminal critical studies such as The Theatre of the Absurd and Brecht: A Choice of Evils. Covering artists as... -
A Commonplace by Jonathan Davidson 9781912196333
RRP: $20.90$15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196333Author Jonathan DavidsonFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
Latest Readings by Clive James
RRP: $23.08$20.18An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might... -
Rue Ordener, Rue Labat by Sarah Kofman
RRP: $33.58$30.37Rue Ordener, Rue Labat is a moving memoir by the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman. It opens with the horrifying moment in July 1942 when the author's father, the rabbi of a small synagogue, was dragged by police from the family home on Rue... -
The Saga of the Volsungs by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $16.78$13.42Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'They summoned their friends, readiedtheir horses, and prepared their... -
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science by Debapriya Sarkar
RRP: $113.40$99.02The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature-what early moderns termed poesie-in the dynamic intellectual culture... -
Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer by Roger Chartier
RRP: $41.98$41.31In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between patronage... -
Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrative by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $39.88$35.66In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt's work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dracula by Roger Luckhurst 9781107153172
RRP: $157.50$142.25Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its... -
Understand Greek Mythology Steve Eddy 9781444163469
RRP: $27.28$18.54Ancient Greek myths shaped and were shaped by one of the most important culture in the history of the world. Even today, stories such as Oedipus, Narcissus, Odysseus and the Golden Fleece reverberate through our popular culture.This is the ideal... -
Hand to Mouth by Paul Auster 9780571389506
RRP: $27.28$18.48'One of the most original and audacious autobiographies ever written by a writer.' Le Monde Hand to Mouth tells the story of the young Paul Auster's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Auster's memoir is essentially a book about... -
Poems Of Mourning Peter Washington 9781857157369
RRP: $23.08$16.78Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss. The poems chosen...