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The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) by Ha Jin
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562436Author Ha JinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho by Haruo Shirane 9780804730990
RRP: £27.99£24.54Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and yet there has been remarkably little serious scholarship in English on his achievement. This book is intended to address that virtual void by establishing the ground... -
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition by Sidonie Smith
RRP: £17.99£16.30With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study. Reading Autobiography, originally published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical introduction to life writing in all its forms. Widely... -
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth
RRP: £9.99£6.70'Deeply moving... This is a beautiful book.' TLS______________________________Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford University when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and... -
Critic at Large: Essays and Rreviews 2010-2022 by DJ Taylor 9781915553195
RRP: £10.00£8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553195Author DJ TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press -
The Russian Master and other Stories by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £9.99£7.11These 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... -
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov 9780691167947
RRP: £20.00£15.89Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in biographical and literary context On October 14th, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote... -
Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Dramatis personae.This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition... -
Shiner by Maggie Nelson
RRP: £10.99£8.38In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles-syllabic verse, sonnets,... -
Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities by Siraj Ahmed 9781503604025
RRP: £24.99£21.67For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the... -
West Indian Intellectuals in Britain by Bill Schwarz 9780719064753
RRP: £19.99£17.61The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain. Written in an accessible, lively style, with a range of wonderful and distinguished authors. Key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain; study... -
The 100 Best Novels: In English by Robert McCrum 9781903385470
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385470Author Robert McCrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
Whaddyacall the Wind? by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto 9781599541938
RRP: £20.00£14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541938Author Annie Rachele LanzillottoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm)... -
Tendencies by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 9780822314219
RRP: £22.99£20.01Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays... -
Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
RRP: £10.99£7.77Should you finish every book you start?How has your family influenced the way you read?What is literary style?How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup?Why do you hate the book your friend likes?Is writing really just like any other job?What happens to... -
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks 9781848310605
RRP: £8.99£4.04Michel 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... -
James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study by Stuart Gilbert 9780394700137
RRP: £10.99£9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394700137Author Stuart GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 171mm *... -
The Shakespearean Forest by Anne Barton 9781009226684
RRP: £18.99£17.23The Shakespearean Forest, Anne Barton's final book, uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power. The collection is representative of the startling breadth of Barton's scholarship: ranging... -
Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects 1950-2010 by Rebecca Kosick
RRP: £37.00£34.01Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lensThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they... -
Medieval Women's Writing by Diane Watt
RRP: £16.99£15.22Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women... -
Children's Literature and the Posthuman: Animal, Environment, Cyborg by Zoe Jaques
RRP: £47.99£41.81An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children's literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children's fiction offers sophisticated interventions into debates about... -
Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem by Frank Doggett
RRP: £26.50£23.29Originally published in 1980. Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem emphasizes the ideas that Wallace Stevens embeds in his poetry, providing the first study to provide an intellectual biography of Stevens. It examines Stevens' naturalism, his ideas of... -
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith
RRP: £28.00£21.80How nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious"Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it-most of which emanate... -
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII by Christopher Pelling 9781316630228
RRP: £23.99£20.94In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Book 7 opens with Athens seemingly on the point of... -
The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £9.99£7.11In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it remains relevant even in a... -
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... -
The New Modernist Studies by Douglas Mao
RRP: £30.99£22.85This is the first book specifically devoted to the new modernist studies. Bringing together a range of perspectives on the past, present, and future of this vibrant, complicated scholarly enterprise, the collection reconsiders its achievements and... -
American Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to US Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw 9781843449188
RRP: £12.99£8.60Barry 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... -
Handbook of Arthurian Romance: King Arthur's Court in Medieval European Literature by Leah Tether 9783110655803
RRP: £32.50£26.80The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be... -
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace Elisabeth Lavery
RRP: £25.00£19.59Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it... -
The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone by Susan Paterson Glover
RRP: £39.99£35.06Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an... -
Minor Attic Orators: v. 1 by K.J. Maidment
RRP: £24.95£23.39Two ill-fated rhetoricians.Antiphon of Athens, born in 480 BC, spent his prime in the great period of Athens but, disliking democracy, was himself an ardent oligarch who with others set up a violent short-lived oligarchy in 411. The restored democracy... -
Michael Cunningham's "The Hours": A Reader's Guide by Tory Young 9780826414762
£18.09A critical appraisal of Michael Cunningham and his work, "The Hours", this text forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of... -
Pedagogies for Diverse Contexts by Alan Pence
RRP: £35.99£31.69Diversity can be a rich source of possibility and opportunity in early childhood education. Appreciating that learning and development are shaped by culture and context, history and values, the diversity of cases found in this volume provide a useful... -
Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century 'Hidden' Lives by Juliette Atkinson 9780199572137
RRP: £135.00£103.57In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well as the illustrious'. She did so in part as a reaction against Victorian biography, deemed to have been... -
Transplantation Gothic: Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine by Sara Wasson 9781526171719
RRP: £20.00£17.84Winner of the International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize 2022.Shortlisted for the British Society of Literature and Science Book Prize 2020.Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through... -
The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding by J. A. Szirmai
RRP: £54.99£48.12In the past, studies of the history of bookbinding were mainly concerned with the exterior decoration. This book focuses attention primarily on the physical aspects of the binding and its construction principles. It is an expanded version of a series... -
The Old English Rune Poem: A Critical Edition by Maureen Halsall 9781487592684
RRP: £27.99£23.72This critical edition provides unique access to a work which has challenged scholars and students alike. The book is the first to deal fully with the poem as literature and to supply the runic background necessary for an understanding of the raw... -
Mad Love by Andre Breton
RRP: £14.99£11.53Mad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy... -
Spatiality by Dr. Robert T. Tally
RRP: £22.99£20.16Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history.Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of...