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The Hidden Teacher: Ideology and Children's Reading by Peter Hollindale 9780903355551
$15.81Apologies 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 -
This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing by Andrew Bennett 9781032285849
RRP: $37.03$32.90What is this thing called literature? Why study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel by John Richetti
RRP: $52.63$44.46In 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... -
Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism by Rebecca Beasley 9780521152679
RRP: $77.98$64.86Ezra 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... -
Narrative across Media: The Languages of Storytelling by Marie-Laure Ryan
RRP: $54.58$47.85Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media... -
The Birth Of Tragedy Or Hellenism And Pessimism: Translated By Wm. A. Haussmann; Edited By Dr Oscar Levy by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9789353367626
RRP: $17.55$16.19Apologies 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... -
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
RRP: $25.33$22.35Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the... -
The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry (1850-1950) by Peter Broome 9780521209304
RRP: $74.08$62.95Biographies 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... -
Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts by Marie Loughlin
RRP: $48.75$35.72Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550-1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and... -
Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution by Karen Grumberg
RRP: $54.58$47.07Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture. The ghosts of a murdered Talmud scholar and his kidnapped bride... -
Women and the Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion by Avril Horner 9781474425568
RRP: $46.78$38.04This collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of `Women and the Gothic .About the AuthorAvril Horner is Emeritus Professor at Kingston University, London. Sue... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dante by Rachel Jacoff 9780521844307
RRP: $152.08$137.65This 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... -
James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile by Magdalena J. Zaborowska
RRP: $46.78$41.42Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin's "Turkish decade," Magdalena J. Zaborowska reveals the significant role that... -
The Judge Dee Novels of R. H. van Gulik: The Case of the Chinese Detective and the American Reader by J. K. Van Dover 9780786496211
RRP: $70.18$59.20The 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... -
Grotesque by Justin Edwards
RRP: $44.83$39.31Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its... -
Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species by Neel Ahuja
RRP: $42.88$37.42In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and bacteria at the borders of U.S. influence, a phenomenon called... -
Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" by Adam Parkes 9780826452313
$33.40Continuum 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... -
The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature by A. Robert Lee
RRP: $85.78$74.96Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown familiar? Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs. Likewise the frontline texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in modern American literary history. On the Road serves as... -
The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: $53.63$47.03Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances arising from their own environment of social and historical norms and stimulates them to assess and criticize their surroundings. By analyzing major works of English fiction... -
Poems of Al-Mutanabbi by A. J. Arberry 9780521108485
RRP: $77.98$64.86Al-Mutanabbi (AD 915-965), though universally considered the greatest of all the Arab poets, has seldom been translated or discussed outside Arab countries. This study uses the same format as and is intended to supplement Professor Arberry's Arabic... -
Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life by Steven Shaviro
RRP: $44.85$29.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685882Author Steven ShaviroFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature by Stephen Dodd 9780674016521
RRP: $66.20$54.23This book examines the development of Japanese literature depicting the native place (furusato) from the mid-Meiji period through the late 1930s as a way of articulating the uprootedness and sense of loss many experienced as Japan modernized. The 1890s... -
Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas - An Annotated German-Language Reader by Henk de Berg
RRP: $64.33$57.78The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations that make them accessible. German-language... -
Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets by Deryn Rees-Jones
RRP: $21.35$14.39In this pioneering critical study, Deryn Rees-Jones discusses the work of some of the major women poets of the last hundred years, showing how they have explored what it has meant to be a woman poet writing in a male-dominated poetic tradition. ... -
Selected Literary Essays by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $33.13$27.50This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorised Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary... -
Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva by Michael Payne 9780631182894
$80.01a Deconstructiona , a psychoanalysisa , and a semioticsa have become part of the vocabulary of contempoorary culture. Reading Theory introduces the principal texts by Derrida, Lacan and Kristeva that are behind these terms and that provide their contexts... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre by Deborah Payne Fisk 9780521588126
RRP: $60.43$52.20This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time. No longer seen as a privileged arena for... -
The World's Lightest Motorcycle by Won Yi
RRP: $21.43$14.39A successor to Korean feminist poets like Kim Hyesoon, Yi Won frequently writes about the perilousness of maintaining one's human identity in a high-tech, digital environment. In this debut book in English, her poems range from avant-garde prose poems to... -
Greek Tragedies 2: Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Electra, the Trojan Women by David Grene
$23.67Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux 9780393254730
RRP: $42.88$36.17Soon after its publication on 30 September 1868, Little Women became an enormous international bestseller. When Anne Boyd Rioux read it in her twenties, it had a powerful effect on her and through teaching it, she has seen its effect on many others. In... -
The Trauma Question by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: $74.08$65.09In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major element in contemporary Western conceptions of the self. The Trauma Question... -
Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides, The: Dead Letters by Gary Lachman 9781903517666
RRP: $19.48$16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903517666Author Gary LachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd -
Andalucia: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Andrew Edwards
RRP: $33.13$25.66Andalucia is the quintessence of Spain and yet, historically and culturally, it is surprisingly unlike the rest of the country. Its literary history began to develop with the Romans and reached an early flowering when Arabic poets drew on centuries of... -
Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound by Rebecca Beasley 9780415285414
RRP: $38.98$34.50Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects, and changing the very notion of what it meant to be a poet. This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of the most... -
Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence by Katherine Parr
RRP: $85.80$84.38To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512-48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Parr... -
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by M. C. Howatson
RRP: $97.48$90.25The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales,... -
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner 9780300089226
$62.03Paul Celan, Europe's most compelling postwar poet, was a German-speaking, East European Jew. His writing exposes and illumines the wounds that Nazi destructiveness left on language. John Felstiner's sensitive and accessible book is the first critical... -
Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory by Katie Conboy
RRP: $58.50$46.20In many fields, the body is the topic generating exciting new research and interdisciplinary inquiry. Feminist theorists, in particular, have focused on the female body as the site where representations of difference and identity are inscribed. Drawn... -
Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church by Richard Firth Green
RRP: $54.58$47.07In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyland. Taking as his starting point the assumption that... -
Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing by James Procter
RRP: $38.98$34.75Explores some of the key venues of black British literary and cultural production across the postwar period: bedsits and basements; streets and cafes; train stations and tourist landscapes; the suburbs and the city; the north and south. Pursues a...