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Student Companion to Tennessee Williams by Nancy M. Tischler 9780313312380
£49.37From his earliest success in 1945 with the poignant The Glass Menagerie, until his final curtain call with the 1979 production of The Two-Character Play, Tennessee Williams never stopped experimenting with theatrical techniques and striving to explain... -
This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 by Julia Briggs 9780192892867
RRP: £48.99£44.97The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age of Shakespeare, but the age also of Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, of fellow dramatists Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, and of the prose writers Nashe, Bacon, and Burton. This book examines... -
The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature by Tarif Khalidi 9780674011151
RRP: £26.95£21.74This work presents in English translation the largest collection ever assembled of the sayings and stories of Jesus in Arabic Islamic literature. In doing so, it traces a tradition of love and reverence for Jesus that has characterized Islamic thought... -
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction by John Sutherland
RRP: £8.99£6.65'I rejoice', said Doctor Johnson, 'to concur with the Common Reader.' For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an... -
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology by Zong-qi Cai 9780231139410
RRP: £38.00£31.01In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci,... -
The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages by Penelope Reed Doob
RRP: £15.99£14.46Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective-the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without... -
Deaths of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts
RRP: £9.99£7.32From Dylan Thomas's eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath's desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton's Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats' death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often... -
Defoe`s Britain by Jeremy Black 9781587312052
RRP: £20.00£16.98The Weight of Words Series continues with Daniel Defoe, as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Britain in the late 1600s, and likewise looks to the times to interpret the fiction. As seen in previous studies on Christie, Smollett,... -
Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" by Nicolas Tredell 9780826490117
RRP: £21.99£21.89"Reader's Guides" provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical... -
William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians by Keith Dockray 9781781554159
RRP: £16.99£13.13For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's occupation of the English throne; a blessing because,... -
Stan Lee: A Life by Bob Batchelor
RRP: £17.99£12.95The definitive biography of Marvel legend Stan Lee, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.Stan Lee's extraordinary life was as epic as the superheroes he co-created, from the Amazing Spider-Man to the Mighty Avengers. His ideas and voice are at... -
Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists by Joan Copjec 9781781688885
RRP: £19.99£18.53In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines-psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food by J. Michelle Coghlan
RRP: £23.99£20.70This Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval period to the present day, as well as an illuminating introduction to cookbooks as literature... -
A Vertical Art: On Poetry by Simon Armitage 9780691233109
RRP: £17.99£15.21From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend... -
Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women by Makoto Ueda
RRP: £30.00£23.29Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has... -
Thebaid: Bk. 8-12 by Publius Papinius Statius
RRP: £24.95£23.76Fraternal strife, and the young Achilles.Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of... -
A.E. Housman: Finding a Path to Flourish by Peter Waine
RRP: £20.00£13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606107Author Peter WaineFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 575gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema by Laura Marcus
RRP: £23.99£19.99Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the... -
Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930 by Rachel Potter 9780199273935
£21.10Anglo-American modernist writing and modern mass democratic states emerged at the same time, during the period of 1900-1930. Yet writers such as T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Ford Madox Ford were notoriously hostile to modern... -
Absalom, Absalom!: A Norton Critical Edition by William Faulkner
RRP: £14.99£13.43This Norton Critical Edition includes: The authoritative text of Absalom, Absalom!, established by Noel Polk in 1986 and accompanied by Susan Scott Parrish's introduction and explanatory footnotes.Two maps and five other images.A rich selection of... -
She Is Sitting In The Night: Re-visioning Thea's Tarot Oliver Pickle 9780994047106
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994047106Author Oliver PickleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Metonymy PressPublisher Metonymy Press -
Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form by Paul K. Saint-Amour 9780190200954
RRP: £40.99£29.28Tense Future falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or predetermined by war. Part two shifts the focus... -
Shakespearean Gothic by Christy Desmet 9780708320921
RRP: £9.99£7.80This collection of essays explores the thesis that Shakespeare as we know him today was born in the eighteenth century, at the same time as the Gothic tradition, first named by Horace Walpole in 1764. The two are inextricable. Writers interested in... -
Tragedies, Volume I: Hercules. Trojan Women. Phoenician Women. Medea. Phaedra by Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.76Spectacular verse drama.Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that... -
The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy by John Sellars 9781853997242
£29.35It is a commonplace to say that in antiquity philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but precisely what such claims amount to has remained unclear. If ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual's... -
Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi by Hans-Georg Moeller 9780231183994
RRP: £30.00£23.29Genuine Pretending is an innovative and comprehensive new reading of the Zhuangzi that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D'Ambrosio show how this Daoist classic, contrary to contemporary... -
The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought by Sanford Schwartz 9780691604374
RRP: £35.00£27.95Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the works of various philosophers--Bergson, James, Bradley,... -
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Philip Ball 9780226823843
RRP: £18.00£15.80With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our... -
Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism by Terence Cave 9780198824640
RRP: £23.49£19.99To speak of 'thinking with literature' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and... -
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... -
Fame and Failure 1720-1800: The Unfulfilled Literary Life by Adam Rounce 9781107042223
RRP: £90.00£81.03Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame through writers who failed to achieve the literary success they so desired. Recounting the experiences of less canonical writers,... -
Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide by Owen Holland 9781848319042
RRP: £8.99£6.28From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline.Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and... -
The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus by Petrus Liu 9781478019428
RRP: £19.99£17.81In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds... -
The Brontesaurus: An A-Z of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte (and Branwell) by John Sutherland
RRP: £9.99£4.86Did 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... -
The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot by Robert Crawford 9780198122517
£40.25The twin concerns of primitive and metropolitan life nourished T.S. Eliot's imagination through his childhood and student years and developed to mould and underpin his writing. Ranging from Dr Sweany of St Louis and Eliot's intense interest in... -
Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources: Volume 1 by Timothy Gantz
RRP: £32.50£29.71Early Greek Myth is a much-needed handbook for scholars and others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic Greek myths-and the only one of its kind available in English. Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative... -
Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence by Brahim El Guabli
RRP: £27.99£24.14Moroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the "years of lead"-a period... -
The Transferred Life of George Eliot by Philip Davis
RRP: £28.99£21.20Reading George Eliot's work was described by one Victorian critic as 'the feeling of entering the confessional in which she sees and hears all the secrets of human psychology--that roar which lies on the other side of silence'. This new biography of... -
Apuleius Metamorphoses V: A Selection by Stuart R. Thomson
£15.35This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Apuleius' Metamorphoses V, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for sections 11-24. A detailed introduction covers the prescribed text... -
On Plato's <i>Timaeus</i> by Calcidius
RRP: £29.95£24.43Until the Renaissance, the work of Calcidius offered the medieval West almost the only direct access to Plato's corpus not dispersed in fragments. In the 4th century CE, Calcidius translated into Latin an important section of Plato's Timaeus,...