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Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin 9780156941761
RRP: £15.99£11.62Kazin's memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to "americanca"-the larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portrayal of the Jewish immigrant culture of the 1930s... -
Modernist Literature: A Guide for the Perplexed by Peter Childs 9780826432629
£25.45This is a complete introduction to Modernist writers, ideas and movements that considers the precursors as well as the legacy of Modernist Literature. Literary Modernism can be described as the flourishing of avant-garde literature over a forty year... -
The Torch In My Ear Elias Canetti 9781847083579
RRP: £9.99£6.90In The Torch in My Ear Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner, towering intellectual figure and polymath, gives us his second volume of autobiography. Using as a framework his admiration for his first great mentor, the Viennese writer Karl Kraus, and his... -
Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations by Graeme Gilloch
£19.99The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines. ... -
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley
RRP: £23.00£14.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525655497Author Kerry HowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Understanding Children's Literature by Peter Hunt
RRP: £37.99£33.38Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children's literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline.The fourteen chapters draw on insights from... -
Medieval Monstrosity: Imagining the Monstrous in Medieval Europe by Charity Urbanski 9780367197421
RRP: £35.99£31.69This volume examines various manifestations and understandings of the concept of monstrosity in medieval Europe around 500-1500 ce through a collection of contextual chapters and primary sources. The main chapters focus on a specific theme, a type of... -
Works: v. 7 by Philo
RRP: £24.95£23.76Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ... -
The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism by Stuart Curran 9780521136051
RRP: £25.99£21.99This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism has been fully revised and updated and includes two wholly new essays, one on recent developments in the field, and one on the rapidly expanding publishing industry of this period. It... -
The Penguin Book Of The Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English by Phillis Levin 9780140589290
RRP: £22.99£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140589290Author Phillis LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Ustinov Still at Large by Peter Ustinov 9780879759674
RRP: £17.99£13.84"I wish to cause no pain, except where it is deserved." -- Peter Ustinov The legendary Peter Ustinov was one of the world's most versatile and talented contributors to the arts. Ustinov's talents were widely demonstrated both in print and on... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy by Emma Smith 9780521734646
RRP: £25.99£21.99Featuring essays by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of themes crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical and frequently taught texts. Part I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the... -
Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2: Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles by Julian Curry
RRP: £14.99£11.30'This book gives some of the very best of Shakespeare's twenty-first-century colleagues an opportunity to share insights that can only come from playing him' Nicholas Hytner, from his Foreword Twelve leading actors take us behind the scenes of... -
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks 9781848310605
RRP: £8.99£4.02Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim... -
Studies in European Realism by Georg Lukacs 9780850362114
RRP: £13.95£12.95A great 20th century literary critic discusses the 19th century European novel.Book InformationISBN 9780850362114Author Georg LukacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd -
Ricoeur on Time and Narrative: An Introduction to Temps et recit by William C. Dowling
RRP: £20.99£18.37"The object of this book," writes William C. Dowling in his preface, "is to make the key concepts of Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative available to readers who might have felt bewildered by the twists and turns of its argument." The sources of puzzlement... -
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, And Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980 by Iain McIntyre 9781629634388
RRP: £28.99£19.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634388Author Iain McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Sade: A Sudden Abyss by Annie Le Brun 9780872862500
RRP: £21.99£16.66The literary adventure of D.A.F. (1740-1814) is unique and paradoxical. He was widely read in the nineteenth century, but his books disappeared almost completely from circulation in the century. Meanwhile the exegesis of Sade poured from the presses of... -
York Notes Companions: The Long 18th Century: Literature from 1660-1790 by Penny Pritchard
RRP: £10.99£8.47From Restoration poets and playwrights Dryden, Rochester and Behn, through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists Richardson, Burney and Defoe, this volume discusses the key literary developments of the age. Covering important topics of... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism by Professor Murray Pittock
RRP: £27.99£26.21Bringing together an international group of experts, this companion explores a distinctly Scottish Romanticism. Discussing the most influential texts and authors in depth, the original essays shed new critical light on texts from Macpherson's Ossian... -
Julia Kristeva by Noelle McAfee 9780415250092
RRP: £19.99£17.69One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work,... -
Would They Lie to You?: How to Spin Friends and Manipulate People by Robert S. Hutton 9781783960088
RRP: £9.99£7.05How do you apologise when you're not sorry? Where can you make a fortune out of pretending to know the future? What's the best way to steal credit and avoid blame? These are the vital life skills that people need if they're going to make their way in the... -
Empire Signs by Roland Barthes
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374522070Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc -
Lectures on Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank
RRP: £17.99£14.60From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major worksJoseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer,... -
The Hidden Teacher: Ideology and Children's Reading by Peter Hollindale 9780903355551
£8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903355551Author Peter HollindaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Thimble PressPublisher Thimble Press -
On Entering the Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani by Nizar Qabbani 9781566561938
£14.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566561938Author Nizar QabbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)... -
Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz 9780385499095
RRP: £12.99£9.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and Nobel Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780385499095Author Naguib MahfouzFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bantam... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel by John Richetti
RRP: £26.99£22.80In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the... -
King Lear: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780143128557
RRP: £8.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128557Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153g -
Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism by Rebecca Beasley 9780521152679
RRP: £39.99£33.26Ezra Pound was deeply engaged with the avant-garde art scene in London and Paris during the early twentieth century. The effects of this engagement were not restricted to experiments in poetic form, however; they directly shaped Pound's social and... -
Object Lessons by Robyn Wiegman
RRP: £23.99£21.56No concept has been more central to the emergence and evolution of identity studies than social justice. In historical and theoretical accounts, it crystallizes the progressive politics that have shaped the academic study of race, gender, and sexuality... -
The Birth Of Tragedy Or Hellenism And Pessimism: Translated By Wm. A. Haussmann; Edited By Dr Oscar Levy by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9789353367626
RRP: £9.00£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353367626Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry (1850-1950) by Peter Broome 9780521209304
RRP: £37.99£32.28Biographies of poets are often rich in human interest; manuals of literary history can be full of broad insight and suggestive parallels. But it is all too easy to let the study of French poetry drift towards lives, loves and -isms and away from the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dante by Rachel Jacoff 9780521844307
RRP: £77.99£70.59This 2007 second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Dante is designed to provide an accessible introduction to Dante for students, teachers and general readers. The volume was fully updated and includes three new essays on Dante's works. The... -
Jean Baudrillard by Richard J. Lane
RRP: £19.99£17.69Jean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial theorists of our time, famous for his claim that the Gulf War never happened and for his provocative writing on terrorism, specifically 9/11. This new and fully updated second edition includes: an... -
The Judge Dee Novels of R. H. van Gulik: The Case of the Chinese Detective and the American Reader J. K. Van Dover 9780786496211
RRP: £35.99£30.12The Judge Dee Novels provides a comprehensive survey of Robert van Gulik's series of novels (1949-1968) featuring the Tang dynasty magistrate, Judge Dee. In addition to providing a synopsis of each of the Judge Dee stories (with commentaries on the... -
Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre by Karen Cherewatuk
RRP: £23.99£21.91Explored in this book are women's contributions to letter writing in western Europe from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays represent the first attempt to chart medieval women's achievements in epistolarity, and the contributions to this... -
Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" by Adam Parkes 9780826452313
£17.13Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the... -
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £12.99£11.11When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished,... -
The Global Eighteenth Century by Felicity A. Nussbaum
RRP: £25.50£22.84Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a "long eighteenth century," one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. In The Global Eighteenth Century, editor Felicity Nussbaum and the contributing authors take this idea one step further,...