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Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach 9780226032023
RRP: £27.00£26.47Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a... -
Annotation by Remi H Kalir
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539920Author Remi Hi. KalirFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life by Mari Ruti 9780231186681
RRP: £28.00£21.80Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud's idea of penis envy, Ruti's... -
Railway Rhymes Peter Ashley 9781841597782
RRP: £12.00£8.68Railway Rhymes is probably the first time that the poetry of railways has been brought together into one dedicated volume. Here will certainly be found the old favourites - Philip Larkin's 'Whitsun Weddings', W.H. Auden's 'Night Mail', John Betjeman's... -
Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £24.95£23.76Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at... -
Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time by Gavin Francis
RRP: £18.99£16.32In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as a medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English physician, wordsmith, and polymath who contributed hundreds of words... -
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £14.99£12.75C. S. Lewis's Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of which were never published in Lewis's lifetime. The first three provide a general introduction to medieval literature whilst the... -
Aspects of the Novel E M Forster 9781444765182
RRP: £17.99£12.32Full of Forster's renowned wit and perceptiveness, ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL offers a rare insight into the art of fiction from one of our greatest novelists.'His is a book to encourage dreaming.' Virginia Woolf Forster pares down the novel to its essential... -
On Reading by Marcel Proust 9781843916161
RRP: £12.95£8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843916161Author Marcel ProustFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 195mm *... -
Present Past Past Present: A Personal Memoir by Eugene Ionesco 9780306808357
£15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorEugene Ionesco (1910-1994), a Romanian-born Frenchman, was central to the theatre of the Absurd, a dramatic movement that abandons logical plot development,... -
The Early Modern English Sonnet: Ever in Motion by Laetitia Sansonetti 9781526163837
RRP: £25.00£22.03This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as... -
An Introduction to Applied Semiotics: Tools for Text and Image Analysis by Louis Hebert 9780367351120
RRP: £37.99£33.38An Introduction to Applied Semiotics presents nineteen semiotics tools for text and image analysis. Covering a variety of different schools and approaches, together with the author's own original approach, this is a full and synthetic introduction to... -
The Brontesaurus: An A-Z of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte (and Branwell) by John Sutherland
RRP: £9.99£4.93Did Charlotte Bronte take opium? Did the Reverend Bronte carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does 'wuthering' mean?Distinguished literary critic John Sutherland takes an idiosyncratic look at the world of the Brontes, from the bumps on Charlotte's... -
An Explorer's Guide to Julian of Norwich by Veronica Mary Rolf 9780830850884
RRP: £17.99£14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830850884Author Veronica Mary RolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm... -
Living Translation by Gayatri Chakrav Spivak
RRP: £20.99£17.75A collection that brings together Spivak's wide-ranging writings on translation for the first time.Living Translation offers a powerful perspective on the work of distinguished thinker and writer Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, revealing how, throughout her... -
The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: £27.50£24.50Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.About the... -
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories by William Trevor 9780199583140
RRP: £11.99£8.66Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre. Although Ireland may mourn the loss of the seanchai, the old hearthside story-teller, the Irish art of... -
Categories by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.76The philosopher's toolkit.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 years ... -
The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles by C. E. Dale
RRP: £80.00£77.01An investigation of the non-human world in the Exeter Book riddles, drawing on the exciting new approaches of eco-criticism and eco-theology. Humanity is a dominant presence in the Exeter Book riddle collection. It is frequently shown using, shaping... -
Teller and the Tale by Gabriel Josipovici
RRP: £14.99£10.93'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a... -
Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd
RRP: £31.99£28.54This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid's Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on the poem, and discussion of the heroine and her... -
Only Apparently Real by Paul Williams 9780934558310
RRP: £8.99£7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934558310Author Paul WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Entwhistle Books,U.S.Publisher Entwhistle Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 256g -
Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets Deryn Rees-Jones 9781852243920
RRP: £10.95£7.59In this pioneering critical study, Deryn Rees-Jones discusses the work of some of the major women poets of the last hundred years, showing how they have explored what it has meant to be a woman poet writing in a male-dominated poetic tradition. ... -
Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007588220
RRP: £12.99£9.96Penelope 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... -
Forgiveness: An Alternative Account by Matthew Ichihashi Potts
£20.00A deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world "Broad in its philosophical sweep and fine in its literary analysis, this work redefines forgiveness as the modest yet heroic ability to hold pain and... -
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Clare Asquith
£21.95In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from... -
The Tide Tarrieth No Man: By George Wapull by Peter Happe 9780719089312
RRP: £50.00£35.83This volume is a photographic facsimile from the copy of the play by George Wapull in the Harry Ransom Centre.It was originally printed in 1576 by Hugh Jackson, and is one of only five extant copies. The introduction discusses the place of this play in... -
Understanding the Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism by Neil D Isaacs 9780618422531
RRP: £19.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618422531Author Neil D IsaacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Harvest PublicationsPublisher Harvest PublicationsWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life by Anahid Nersessian
RRP: £22.00£21.22Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our relationship to the earth, its inhabitants, and its climate. Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, The Calamity Form... -
Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations Christine Kenyon Jones (King's College London, UK) 9781350381391
RRP: £19.99£16.80Jane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last. In Regency England he was the first celebrity author while she was a parson's daughter writing anonymously. This book explores how their lives, interests,... -
My Beautiful Despair: The Philosophy of Kim Kierkegaardashian by Kim Kierkegaardashian 9781982100988
RRP: £17.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982100988Author Kim KierkegaardashianFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 185mm *... -
Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art by Sarah Phillips Casteel 9780231211970
RRP: £30.00£23.29In a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration,... -
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales by Prof Helen Cooper 9780198878780
RRP: £29.99£28.90Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers... -
God & the Gothic: Religion, Romance, & Reality in the English Literary Tradition by Alison Milbank
RRP: £107.50£89.18God and the Gothic: Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation... -
American Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to US Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw 9781843449188
RRP: £12.99£8.83Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction and film. Following his books on Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir he now tackles the largest and, some might argue, most impressive body of crime fiction from a single country, the... -
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £65.00£54.63This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at textual and literary-historical issues. The texts... -
Tamil: A Biography by David Shulman 9780674059924
RRP: £30.95£25.21Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a... -
Performing Heritage: Research, Practice and Innovation in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation by Anthony Jackson 9780719089053
RRP: £19.99£14.52Performing Heritage is the first book to bring together the range of voices, debates and practices that constitute the fields of museum theatre and live interpretation. Inspiring and challenging in its scope and level of debate, Performing Heritage... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction by Catherine Ross Nickerson
RRP: £22.99£19.56From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide... -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 4, 1966-1989 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867962
RRP: £37.99£34.17This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what was, as Beckett saw it, a surprisingly long life. During these years he produced many of his finest and most...