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Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism by Ara H Merjian
RRP: £39.00£33.79Recognized in America chiefly for his films, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) in fact reinvented interdisciplinarity in post-war Europe. Pasolini self-confessedly approached the cinematic image through painting, and the numerous allusions to early modern... -
Home And Exile by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £9.99£6.70This trenchant and illuminating book by one of Africa's most influential and celebrated writers is a major statement on the importance and dangers of stories, one in which Achebe makes telling use of his personal experiences to examine the political... -
Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture by Liz Gloyn
£27.99What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling? Why do the monsters of antiquity continue to stride across the modern world? In this book, the first in-depth study of how post-classical societies use the creatures from... -
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £21.00£17.64Through journals, letters, dreams, and close readings of the work of many poets, Adrienne Rich reflects on how poetry and politics enter and impinge on American life. This expanded edition includes a new preface by the author as well as her post-9/11... -
Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History by Franco Moretti 9781844671854
£13.79In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers... -
Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007588220
RRP: £12.99£9.70Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. 'I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something... -
Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems by C. D. Wright
RRP: £12.00£8.40C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her... -
Russian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky by Bryan Karetnyk
RRP: £12.99£9.09SHORTLISTED FOR THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE GLOBAL READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. In exile, they... -
Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014 by Philip Roth
RRP: £33.99£22.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535402Author Philip RothFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles Tragic Hero and His Time by Bernard M. W. Knox 9780300074239
£23.45In this widely praised book, an eminent classicist examines Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus in the context of fifth-century B.C. Athens. In attempting to discover what the play meant to Sophocles' contemporaries-and in particular in disentangling Sophocles'... -
My Dead Book: A Novel by Nate Lippens 9781739702908
RRP: £15.00£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Republic of Consciousness Prize 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781739702908Author Nate LippensFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot... -
Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora by Stuart Hall
RRP: £23.99£20.84From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political... -
Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing by Aroosa Kanwal 9781032401805
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing forms a theoretical, comprehensive, and critically astute overview of the history and future of Pakistani literature in English. Dealing with key issues for global society today, from terrorism,... -
The Book of Sleep by Haytham El Wardany
RRP: £12.99£11.46Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states-metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence-be envisioned as action... -
Dispositif: A Cartography by Greg Bird 9780262544337
RRP: £48.00£33.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544337Author Greg BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 709gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 33mm -
Catullus by Julia Haig Gaisser 9781118255353
RRP: £30.95£27.45Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the... -
Works: v.1 by Ammianus Marcellinus
RRP: £24.95£23.39A soldier's chronicle of Rome in decline.Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. AD 325-ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of the East Constantius II, and later under the emperor... -
On Symbols and Society by Kenneth Burke
RRP: £27.00£26.47Kenneth Burke's innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety of disciplines-education, philosophy, history, psychology, religion, and others. While most widely acclaimed as a... -
The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips 9780375707049
RRP: £16.00£11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707049Author Caryl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 139gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
The Becoming by Nicole Luongo
RRP: £14.99£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771338134Author Nicole LuongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc... -
Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror by Nicole C. Dittmer
RRP: £75.00£60.54Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic breaks new ground in uncovering penny titles which have been hitherto largely neglected from literary discourse revealing the cultural, social and literary significance of these working-class texts. The present volume is a... -
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 9780060175962
RRP: £23.00£14.78Apologies 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 Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: £54.99£48.72The Romance of Arthur, James J. Wilhelm's classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition. This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader, mapping the course of Arthurian... -
Study Guide to The Romantic Poets by Intelligent Education 9781645424765
RRP: £15.99£12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645424765Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
The Little Review "Ulysses" by James Joyce
RRP: £25.00£21.32James Joyce's Ulysses first appeared in print in the pages of an American avant-garde magazine, The Little Review, between 1918 and 1920. The novel many consider to be the most important literary work of the twentieth century was, at the time, deemed... -
Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still Has To Teach Us About Sex and Gender by Richard Boothby
RRP: £36.99£32.53At just the moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to the ash-heap of intellectual history, Sex on the Couch rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and gender. Richard Boothby... -
Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern - A Reader by Dr. Sean Burke 9780748606184
RRP: £31.00£29.09This reader provides a solid theoretical base for all those encountering the 'author' debate for the first time. It presents key readings from the main writers on authorship, including pieces from Plato, Descartes, Shelley, Freud, T. S. Eliot, Sartre,... -
Fury: A Memoir by Kathryn Heyman 9781912408641
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408641Author Kathryn HeymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
Reading for Life by Philip Davis 9780198815983
RRP: £33.99£25.86Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It... -
The Spenser Encyclopedia by A. C. Hamilton 9780415755610
RRP: £53.99£49.27'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers ElizabethainsEdmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for:*... -
Dostoevsky by John Jones 9780198126454
RRP: £137.50£113.32In this passionate and tender book, John Jones discusses the narrative techniques and linguistic subtleties of the novels of Dostoevsky.Book InformationISBN 9780198126454Author John JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Oxford University... -
Against Creative Writing by Andrew Cowan
RRP: £36.99£32.53The rise of Creative Writing has been accompanied from the start by two questions: can it be taught, and should it be taught? This scepticism is sometimes shared even by those who teach it, who often find themselves split between two contradictory... -
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction by John Sutherland
RRP: £8.99£6.45'I rejoice', said Doctor Johnson, 'to concur with the Common Reader.' For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an... -
Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia
RRP: £17.95£11.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725395Author Camille PagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £21.99£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118299Author Donald KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 258g -
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s by James Smith 9781108703796
RRP: £24.99£20.94The 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political events, aesthetic debates, and emerging literary networks. Yet what is contained under the rubric of 1930s... -
Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis by David Grene
£12.14Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
The Literature of Wales by Dafydd R. Johnston 9781786830210
RRP: £10.99£8.29A concise and authoritative survey of the Welsh- and English-language literatures of Wales from the earliest period up to the present day. This illustrated guide, containing extracts from original texts with English translations, is a revised version of... -
Wittgenstein and Derrida by Henry Staten
RRP: £19.99£17.54"By linking Wittgenstein with Derrida, Staten suggests that the intellectual relevance of deconstruction is wider than the English-speaking public has recognized."-Studies in the Humanities "This work is altogether first rate. It is informative,... -
The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan by Adam Kabat 9780231209731
RRP: £30.00£24.45In Edo-period Japan, readers relished works known as kibyoshi that combined text and illustration on the same page, much like comic books and manga. Monsters often took center stage in these stories. This book presents a selection of Edo monster comics...