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The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age by Eva Horn 9780231188630
RRP: $63.00$48.91Why do we have the constant feeling that disaster is looming? Beyond the images of atomic apocalypse that have haunted us for decades, we are dazzled now by an array of possible catastrophe scenarios: climate change, financial crises, environmental... -
Contemporary Peruvian Narrative and Popular Cult - Jaime Bayly, Ivan Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides by Robert Ruz
RRP: $168.00$160.88The first book-length study of modern Peruvian narrative and its resurgence in the 1990s, focussing on Jaime Bayly, Ivan Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides. This book provides the first look at the dynamic resurgence of Peruvian narrative since the... -
Infinite Conversation by Maurice Blanchot 9780816619702
RRP: $58.78$53.24In this landmark volume, Blanchot sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers whose contributions have marked turning points in the history of Western thought and have influenced virtually all the themes that inflect the contemporary literary and... -
The Birth of the Codex by Colin H. Roberts 9780197260616
$33.94In The Codex, published in 1954, C.H. Roberts studied the process by which in the early centuries of our era the roll as the vehicle for literature was replaced by the codex, which has remained the format of the book ever since. New evidence that has... -
The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story Scott Brewster 9781032242019
RRP: $92.38$81.35The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical... -
Auto/Biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice by Laura Marcus 9780719055300
RRP: $41.98$38.01In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.About the AuthorLaura Marcus is Lecturer in English... -
Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi
RRP: $71.38$63.00What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and... -
The Robber with a Witch's Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach by Jack Zipes
RRP: $88.18$78.02The Robber with the Witch's Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller's dream, full of adventure and magic, translated by Jack Zipes.About the AuthorLaura Gonzenbach was... -
Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides, The: Dead Letters by Gary Lachman 9781903517666
RRP: $20.98$17.75Apologies 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 -
The Legends of Tono by Kunio Yanagita 9780739127674
RRP: $107.10$98.39In 1910, when Kunio Yanagita (1875-1962) wrote and published The Legends of Tono in Japanese, he had no idea that 100 years later, his book would become a Japanese literary and folklore classic. Yanagita is best remembered as the founder of Japanese... -
Silences by Tillie Olsen 9781558614406
$35.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558614406Author Tillie OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire by Helen Vendler 9780674945753
RRP: $56.60$45.65In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens's short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological... -
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Christine Ma
RRP: $13.65$13.21Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.The authors' central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social... -
On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist: Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin Michael Harding 9781473623514
RRP: $29.38$19.53One day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden, he found himself falling back into the old religious devotions of an earlier time. The meaning he had found through years of engagement with... -
Unfolding Irish Landscapes: Tim Robinson, Culture and Environment by Derek Gladwin 9780719099472
RRP: $52.50$36.98An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish landscapes presents cross-disciplinary studies of the prose, cartography, visual art and cultural legacy of the... -
The Winter's Tale: Critical Essays Maurice Hunt 9781138864221
RRP: $100.78$88.47A collection that includes a lengthy introduction describing historical trends in critical interpretations and theatrical performances of Shakespeare's play; 20 essays on the play, including two written especially for this volume (by Maurice Hunt and... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning 9781399614085
RRP: $16.78$12.14'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume Iv: Sophists by Glenn W. Most
RRP: $52.40$49.90A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Student Companion to Tennessee Williams by Nancy M. Tischler 9780313312380
$103.68From 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: $102.88$94.44The 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: $56.60$45.65This 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: $18.88$13.97'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: $79.80$65.12In 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: $33.58$30.37Ancient 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: $20.98$15.37From 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... -
The Shelf by Phyllis Rose 9780374535360
RRP: $23.08$19.40Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore the "real ground of literature," she reads her way through a... -
Defoe`s Britain by Jeremy Black 9781587312052
RRP: $42.00$35.66The 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: $46.18$45.97"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: $35.68$27.57For 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,... -
Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists by Joan Copjec 9781781688885
RRP: $41.98$38.91In 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: $50.38$43.47This 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: $37.78$31.94From 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: $63.00$48.91Far 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: $52.40$49.90Fraternal 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: $42.00$27.85Apologies 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: $50.38$41.98Laura 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
$44.31Anglo-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: $31.48$28.20This 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: $31.48$21.11Apologies 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: $86.08$61.49Tense 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...