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Vernon Watkins on Dylan Thomas and Other Poets and Poetry Vernon Watkins 9781909844056
RRP: $25.18$18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909844056Author Vernon WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Parthian BooksPublisher Parthian Books -
The Greek Classics by Manutius, Aldus
RRP: $62.90$50.46Aldus Manutius (c. 1451-1515) was the most important and innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was responsible for more first editions of classical literature, philosophy and science than any other publisher before or since... -
In Catilinam: Bks. I-IV: Pro Murena: Pro Sulla: Pro Flacco by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.90The statesman at the height of his powers.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,... -
Conversations with Susan Sontag by Leland A. Poague 9780878058341
RRP: $52.40$49.79Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first... -
John Milton by Richard Bradford 9780415202442
RRP: $77.68$68.31There is a crying need for an accessible, comprehensive guide to John Milton for the thousands of students who make their way through his poetry every year on literary survey and seventeenth century literature courses. Where many previous guides have... -
Temporalities by Russell West-Pavlov
RRP: $41.98$37.15Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and... -
Civic Storytelling – The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature by Florian Fuchs
RRP: $52.50$42.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130741Author Florian FuchsFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 15mm -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film by Professor Russell Jackson 9780521685016
RRP: $56.68$48.72Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This Companion is a lively collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by,... -
Cassandra at His Finest and Funniest by William Neil Connor 9780955823824
$21.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955823824Author William Neil ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Revel BarkerPublisher Revel Barker -
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Kyla Schuller
RRP: $46.18$40.93In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility-the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences-to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges... -
Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" by Graley Herren
RRP: $50.38$44.69Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's distinguished artistic career. The present book interprets the songs recorded for Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams by a single singer/dreamer. These... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780300085068
RRP: $31.48$26.36This prize-winning work provides a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, as well as commentary that ranges from brief glosses to substantial critical essays. Stephen Booth's notes help a modern... -
Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems C. D. Wright 9781852247621
RRP: $25.20$18.10C.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... -
The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad by Joseph Conrad 9780521191920
RRP: $83.98$74.78Since the publication of the Cambridge edition of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, the numerous letters in the nine volumes, many of them published for the first time and many more taken from hard-to-find books and journals, have had a profound... -
Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop
RRP: $31.48$25.10This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings-the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams-novelist, poet,... -
Conversations with Wilde: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts Merlin Holland 9781786782304
RRP: $20.98$14.70Renowned for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him not only for his famous trial and imprisonment, but... -
Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End by Barbara Herrnstein Smith
RRP: $63.00$61.43In "Poetic Closure", distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms by Matt Eatough 9780199324705
RRP: $103.93$96.54The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions like Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria. Together, these essays offer the... -
Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood by Brian Alexander Pavlac 9781119249429
RRP: $27.20$18.50Since it first aired in 2011, Game of Thrones galloped up the ratings to become the most watched show in HBO's history. It is no secret that creator George R.R. Martin was inspired by late 15th century Europe when writing A Song of Ice and Fire, the... -
Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts by Estelle Strazdins 9780192866103
RRP: $246.75$222.83Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts uses literature, inscriptions, art, and architecture to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. This wide-ranging work challenges conventional thinking... -
Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 8: Leonardo, Poe, Mallarme by Paul Valery 9780691619682
RRP: $142.80$111.68Valery's essays on Leonardo, Poe, Mallarme, and with these the "Teste Cycle," were that part of his work most central to his thought. The extensive selection included from his Notebooks is evidence of his enduring interest in these figures. The... -
Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence 9780140183771
RRP: $27.28$19.61Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature... -
Black, White and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture by Hortense J. Spillers 9780226769806
RRP: $75.60$73.98"Black, White and in Colour" offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspiring black critics of the past 20 years. Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly... -
Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making by John Fox
RRP: $35.68$31.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874778090Author John FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 229mm *... -
The Development of Greek Biography: Expanded Edition by Arnaldo Momigliano 9780674200418
RRP: $56.60$44.96Arnaldo Momigliano traces the growth of ancient biography from the fifth century to the first century B.C. He asks new questions about the origins and development of Greek biography, and makes full use of new evidence uncovered in recent decades from... -
Nehru and the Spirit of India by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
$39.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670094233Author Manash Firaq BhattacharjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm *... -
Advertising, Literature and Print Culture in Ireland, 1891-1922 by John Strachan 9780230298736
RRP: $94.48$94.44This is the first study of the cultural meanings of advertising in the Irish Revival period. John Strachan and Claire Nally shed new light on advanced nationalism in Ireland before and immediately after the Easter Rising of 1916, while also addressing... -
Death of a Discipline by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9780231129459
RRP: $42.00$33.37For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural... -
Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light: 1887-1920 by Matt Wingett 9780957241350
$32.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957241350Author Matt WingettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Life is AmazingPublisher Life is Amazing -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780521402309
$168.06Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's account of the American dream gone awry, has established itself as one of the most popular and widely read novels in the English language. Until now, however, no edition has printed... -
Works: v. 1 by Philo
RRP: $52.40$49.90Syncretistic 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 learning. In... -
Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense by Marcello Di Cintio 9780863569807
RRP: $18.88$13.42Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has met with writers, poets, librarians, booksellers and readers, finding extraordinary stories in every corner. Stories of how revolutionary writing is... -
How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Philip Womack
$30.39'Immensely informative, wrapped in an engagingly casual tone, complemented by more than a dash of the bizarre. You'd be barking to miss it.' Professor Michael Scott Can you tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus? In this unique introduction, Philip... -
Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron: Realism on Trial by Justin Steinberg 9781316512746
RRP: $63.00$54.92In Boccaccio's time, the Italian city-state began to take on a much more proactive role in prosecuting crime - one which superseded a largely communitarian, private approach. The emergence of the state-sponsored inquisitorial trial indeed haunts the... -
Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century by Peter H. Lee 9780824807566
RRP: $62.90$60.65This books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century. The book contains a dazzling array of myths and legends, essays and biographies, love poems and Zen... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Beats by Steven Belletto
RRP: $48.28$40.93The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the 1940s that reached... -
The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love by Rachel Feder 9781683693574
RRP: $31.48$21.11What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A literary scholar offers a funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually terrifying. Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Normal People to... -
The Book of Stupid Questions by Tom Weller 9780446389723
RRP: $31.48$29.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446389723Author Tom WellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 118g -
Fictional London: A Guide to the Capital's Literary Landmarks by Stephen Halliday 9780750994057
RRP: $27.28$20.73'By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.' - Samuel JohnsonFrom Chaucer's pilgrims meeting in a Southwark inn to the Hogwarts Express leaving from King's Cross, London has always been a popular place for writers to weave into... -
Bleak Liberalism by Amanda Anderson
RRP: $50.40$48.36Why is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on "realistic" conceptions of humanity, liberalism's assured progressivism can seem hard to swallow...