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Silence by Kyle Gann 9780819573650
RRP: €32.07€20.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819573650Author Kyle GannFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Wesleyan University PressPublisher Wesleyan University Press -
Poems Of Mourning by Peter Washington
RRP: €13.08€9.25Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss. The poems chosen... -
Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily by Rosemary Horrox 9780719082023
RRP: €29.75€26.22This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. The kingdom created by King Roger was the... -
In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch
RRP: €17.84€14.46From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch-the... -
Math, Symbol, and Culture by Clifford Geertz 9780393094091
RRP: €23.80€19.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393094091Author Clifford GeertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Dante: Convivio: A Dual-Language Critical Edition by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €36.88€33.05Dante's Convivio, composed in exile between 1304 and 1307, is a series of self-commentaries on three of Dante's long poems. These allegorical love poems and philosophical verse become the basis for philosophical, literary, moral, and political exposition... -
Forensic Shakespeare by Quentin Skinner 9780199558247
€25.31Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing some of the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays --... -
Civic Storytelling – The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature by Florian Fuchs
RRP: €29.75€23.79Apologies 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 -
A Plea For Eros by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: €11.89€8.09FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes . . . A book to renew one's faith in the literary essay' Robert... -
Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences by Dr Jennifer Flaherty
RRP: €26.17€22.94The collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital shaming. Violence against women. Sexual bullying. Racial slurs and injustice. These are just some of the problems faced by today's young adults. Liberating Shakespeare explores how adaptations of... -
30 Great Myths about Shakespeare by Laurie Maguire 9780470658512
RRP: €22.55€20.05Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship... -
Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity by Jeffrey Shoulson 9780231123297
RRP: €35.70€27.72Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents... -
Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences by Matthew Rubery
RRP: €24.98€19.98What does the term "reading" mean? Matthew Rubery's exploration of the influence neurodivergence has on the ways individuals read asks us to consider that there may be no one definition. This alternative history of reading tells the stories of... -
John Berryman by John Berryman
RRP: €10.70€7.24In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 9780393421972
RRP: €16.65€14.58"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Karl Beckson, Sharon Marcus, and Michael Patrick Gillespie. "Early Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, including... -
Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth by Walter Burkert
RRP: €36.89€28.60Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in... -
Early Welsh Gnomic and Nature Poetry by Nicolas Jacobs 9781907322686
€20.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322686Author Nicolas JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research... -
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley
RRP: €16.65€11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898838Author Jenny MintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Research Methods for English Studies by Gabriele Griffin
RRP: €34.50€27.82This title introduces students to a range of research methods deployed in the study of English. With a revised Introduction and with all chapters revised to bring them completely up-to date, this new edition remains the leading guide to research methods... -
Greek Lyric: v. 2: Anacreontea - Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman by D. A. Campbell
RRP: €29.69€27.83Precious snippets of ancient song.The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later... -
Madness in Literature by Lillian Feder
RRP: €71.40€55.57To probe the literary representation of the alienated mind, Lillian Feder examines mad protagonists of literature and the work of writers for whom madness is a vehicle of self-revelation. Ranging from ancient Greek myth and tragedy to contemporary... -
A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel
RRP: €17.84€17.67An intimate and exhilarating journey through the world of books by the internationally celebrated author In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of... -
James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising as Modern Event by Professor Luke Gibbons 9780226824475
RRP: €33.32€32.59A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization. When revolutionaries seized Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising, they looked back to unrequited pasts to point the way toward radical futures-transforming the... -
Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and Students by Dr Claire Battershill
RRP: €26.17€22.94Rooted in the day-to-day experience of teaching and written for those without specialist technical knowledge, this is a new edition of the go-to guide to using digital tools and resources in the humanities classroom. In response to the rapidly changing... -
Aristophanes: The Complete Plays by Paul Roche
RRP: €21.42€17.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451214096Author Paul RocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind by Harold Bloom 9781501164262
RRP: €19.04€10.91From Harold Bloom, the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare's most complex and compelling anti-heroes-the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon by Inger H. Dalsgaard 9780521173049
RRP: €27.36€20.98The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible,... -
The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson 9780062419699
RRP: €11.89€7.90Available for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America's most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder-a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work. The Selected Letters of Laura... -
Apollonius of Tyana: v. 1, Bks. 1-4 by Philostratus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The life and miracles of a pagan holy man.This biography of a first-century AD holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. In a grandly baroque style style Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and... -
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Kathryn Harkup
RRP: €21.41€13.85A thrilling and gruesome look at the science that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had... -
Dychmygu Iaith by Mererid Hopwood 9781786839190
RRP: €14.27€10.71Mae astudiaethau niferus wedi archwilio delweddaeth beirdd drwy ac mewn iaith, hynny yw, y modd y defnyddiant iaith i greu delweddau, ond nid felly'r ddelweddaeth am iaith ei hunan. Nod y llyfr hwn yw craffu ar sut y mae casgliad o feirdd o bob cwr o'r... -
Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America by Merve Emre
RRP: €28.56€27.41Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's... -
The Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend by Andrew Orchard
RRP: €22.60€15.17From Loki to Thor, Ragnarok to BeowulfA gripping and truly mesmerising delve into the Norse legendsFrom bestselling books to blockbusting Hollywood movies, the myths of the Scandinavian gods and heroes are part of the modern day landscape.For over a... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott by Fiona Robertson
RRP: €28.55€23.22Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is widely recognised as one of the central and defining figures in Scottish literature and in European and American Romanticism. Fabled in his own lifetime as 'the Wizard of the North' and as the (long-anonymous) 'Author of... -
In a Sound World by Victor Segalen
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222801Author Victor SegalenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience by Martin Dubois
RRP: €36.88€22.66This nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins's writing. By exploring the shifting way in which Hopkins imagines religious belief in individual history, Martin Dubois contests established... -
Together Still by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: €15.46€13.64The international community of letters mourns the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half-century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and published a... -
Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" by Julian Murphet 9780826452450
RRP: €26.17€26.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Edward Said by Pal Ahluwalia
RRP: €30.93€26.93Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political... -
The Death of Literature by Alvin B. Kernan 9780300052381
€24.09Literature has passed through a crisis of confidence in recent decades-a radical questioning of its traditional values and its importance to humanity. In this witty and eloquent book, a distinguished professor of humanities looks at some of the agents...