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Thebaid: Bk. 8-12 by Publius Papinius Statius
RRP: $32.19$30.65Fraternal 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: $25.80$17.11Apologies 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: $30.95$25.79Laura 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
$27.22Anglo-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: $19.34$17.32This 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: $19.34$12.96Apologies 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: $52.88$37.77Tense 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: $12.89$10.06This 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: $32.19$30.65Spectacular 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
$37.86It 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: $38.70$30.04Genuine 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: $45.15$36.06Sanford 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: $23.22$20.38With 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: $30.30$25.79To 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: $39.98$29.48This 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: $116.10$104.53Adam 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: $11.60$8.10From 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: $25.79$22.97In 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 Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot by Robert Crawford 9780198122517
$51.92The 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: $41.93$38.33Early 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: $36.11$31.14Moroccan 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: $37.40$27.35Reading 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
$19.80This 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: $38.64$31.51Until 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,... -
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 9781107037779
$131.72This is the first complete scholarly edition of one of Hardy's greatest novels. The Return of the Native engages ambitiously with contemporary ideas and problems of existence, and would go on to become one of the major 'Wessex novels'. When composed in... -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867931
RRP: $49.01$41.51The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters... -
Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality by Jay Prosser
RRP: $36.12$28.12Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is... -
Critical Terms for Literary Study by Frank Lentricchia
RRP: $33.54$32.57This expanded new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are: "Popular Culture"; "Diversity"; "Imperialism/Nationalism"; "Desire";... -
Reading on Location: Great Books Set in Top Travel Destinations by Luisa Moncada
RRP: $11.60$5.47"Reading on Location" is a country-by-country guide to the regions and cities made famous by both well-known and cult books. From the quintessential English city of Bath, featured in Jane Austen's "Persuasion" to the South India of Arundhati Roy's "The... -
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson 9781844675388
$41.28In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since... -
Amphitryon: v. 1: WITH The Comedy of Asses AND The Pot of Gold AND The Two Bacchises AND The Captives by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: $32.19$30.65Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and... -
The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order by Hal Brands
RRP: $16.76$14.78An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things... -
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature by Espen J. Aarseth
RRP: $32.25$28.42Can computer games be great literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narrative mode of discourse-novels, films, television series-is losing its dominant position in our culture? Is it... -
Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible" by Linda Wagner-Martin 9780826452344
$23.34This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist, a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays by Catherine M. S. Alexander
RRP: $33.53$28.37Which plays are included under the heading 'Shakespeare's last plays', and when does Shakespeare's 'last' period begin? What is meant by a 'late play', and what are the benefits in defining plays in this way? Reflecting the recent growth of interest in... -
Deep Time: A Literary History by Noah Heringman
RRP: $38.70$30.52How the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of "deep time"-most often associated with... -
Office by Dr. Sheila Liming
RRP: $12.89$10.18Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the late 19th century to its decline in the 21st, Sheila Liming's Office narrates a cultural history of a place that has... -
My Life as a Godard Movie by Joanna Walsh
RRP: $20.58$12.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492648Author Joanna WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy by Stephen Blackwood
$46.74Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - one of the most... -
The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie by Jonathan S McIntosh 9781621383154
$25.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621383154Author Jonathan S McIntoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...