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India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs by Santanu Das
RRP: $32.24$28.28Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914-1918 conflict and their... -
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross 9780199543410
RRP: $19.34$14.87An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up... -
Veering: A Theory of Literature by Nicholas Royle
RRP: $30.95$27.62This book reflects on the figure of veering to form a new theory of literature. Contrary to a widespread sense that literature has become increasingly irrelevant to our culture and everyday life, Royle brilliantly traces a strangely compelling 'literary... -
Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare by Madhavi Menon
RRP: $34.82$31.06Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard's plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that... -
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley) 9780631223498
RRP: $47.67$42.78From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and... -
Sappho by Page DuBois 9781784533618
$32.96Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the historical poet herself remains elusive. We know that... -
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Wessex by Tony Fincham
RRP: $10.26$9.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992915155Author Tony FinchamFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy by Ursula K Le Guin 9781668034903
RRP: $23.22$15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668034903Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *... -
Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology Derek Pearsall (Harvard University) 9780631198390
RRP: $54.12$49.03In this key anthology Derek Pearsall offers a radically new approach to those teaching and studying English writing from Geoffrey Chaucer to the early work of Edmund Spenser.About the AuthorDerek Pearsall is the Gurney Professor of English at Harvard... -
The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson 9780062419699
RRP: $12.89$8.82Available 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... -
Italian Literature II - Tristano Riccardiano by F. Regina Psaki
RRP: $141.90$135.63Text with facing translation of the earliest Italian Tristan romance, providing new evidence for the development of the Tristan strand of the Arthurian legend. This is the first English translation of the earliest Italian Tristan romance, the Tristano... -
Little Goody Two-Shoes and Other Stories: Originally Published by John Newbery by Matthew Grenby
$26.08John Newbery is celebrated as the first successful publisher of children's books, and the founder of modern children's literature. Three classic works published by Newbery (the authors unknown) are now available for a new generation of readers. Edited by... -
Heroides by Ovid 9780674990456
RRP: $32.19$32.04Two early works by the consummate Latin love poet.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at... -
A Map of Misreading: with a New Preface by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780195162219
RRP: $19.34$11.93In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory that patterns of... -
Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700 by Dr. Mary Bateman 9781843846581
RRP: $122.55$117.89The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power to suspend disbelief, even concerning unbelievable subjects. The many locations associated with King Arthur show this to be true,... -
Close Reading: The Reader by Frank Lentricchia
RRP: $33.53$29.98An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century's foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The... -
Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women’s Writing by Lucille Cairns 9781802077957
$143.98Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women's Writing examines the most common types of Eating Disorders (EDs) - anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa/bulimarexia, and binge eating disorder - as represented in contemporary French women's literature. The... -
All Booked Up: A Reading Retrospective by Susan Elkin 9781916668416
RRP: $12.89$9.30Reflecting on seventy years of voracious reading, All Booked Up invites you to reflect on the transformative power of literature on a life through fifteen captivating chapters, each focusing on a different book. Opening with Five Go Off In A Caravan,... -
Historical Fiction Now by Mark Eaton 9780198877035
RRP: $32.25$27.34Historical Fiction Now brings together prominent authors, scholars, and critics of historical fiction to explore the genre's character, fortunes, and potential in the twenty-first century. Gathering together the voices of novelists, critics,... -
Hamletics - Shakespeare, Kafka, Beckett Massimo Cacciari 9781803092669
RRP: $21.92$21.49One of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation. During the dramatic course of the twentieth century, amid the clash of the titans which marked that era, humanity... -
Shakespeare & Collaborative Writing by Dr Will Sharpe 9780198819646
RRP: $21.92$20.79Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. We see him afresh as a poetic innovator in continual flux, and in continual artistic debt: an author shaped by others... -
The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative by Katherine Elkins
RRP: $21.93$18.99Sentiment analysis has gained widespread adoption in many fields, but not-until now-in literary studies. Scholars have lacked a robust methodology that adapts the tool to the skills and questions central to literary scholars. Also lacking has been... -
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: $36.11$32.15"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in... -
The Making of the Odyssey by Martin Litchfield West 9780198810193
$44.80The poet of the Odyssey was a seriously flawed genius. He had a wonderfully inventive imagination, a gift for pictorial detail and for introducing naturalistic elements into epic dialogue, and a grand architectural plan for the poem. He was also a... -
The Good European: Arguments, Excursions and Disquisitions on the Theme of Europe by Iain Bamforth 9781857547658
RRP: $21.87$15.79Nietzsche, warning his countrymen in the Bismarck era against the nationalism that sought to promote all that was anti-rational in the German tradition, exhorted them to be "good Europeans", avatars of the enlightened economic man of the... -
Allen Ginsberg: Beat Poet by Barry Miles
RRP: $23.21$16.96Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg's journals and correspondence to produce an immensely... -
The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination: Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature Robert Rix (Copenhagen University, Denmark) 9780367871130
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an 'out-of-Scandinavia' legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a... -
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780393972825
$31.98This edition presents Parts I and II complete. Cyrus Hamlin provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and his Interpretive Notes have been expanded and reset in larger, easy-to-read type. "Comments by Contemporaries" includes short... -
Orderic Vitalis: Life, Works and Interpretations Charles C. Rozier 9781783274024
RRP: $33.53$32.55First full-length collection on one of the most significant and influential historians of the medieval period. The Gesta Normannorum ducum and Historia ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis are widely regarded as landmarks in the development of European... -
The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan 9780520272620
RRP: $39.99$32.29This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America's most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to... -
The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature: The Quest to Fail by Jonathan Ullyot
RRP: $116.10$88.00Jonathan Ullyot's The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature rethinks the influence that early medieval studies and Grail narratives had on modernist literature. Through examining several canonical works, from Henry James' The Golden Bowl to Samuel... -
The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes by Anthony J. Cascardi 9780521663878
RRP: $33.53$28.37Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) is one of the classic texts of Western literature and the foundation of European fiction. Yet Cervantes himself remains an enigmatic figure. The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes, first published in 2002, offers a... -
A Gallery to Play to: The Story of the Mersey Poets by Phil Bowen 9781846311253
RRP: $45.14$41.23A Gallery to Play to is an intimate account of the lives and careers of the poets Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten. With unparalleled access to the three writers, Phil Bowen has written an indispensable book for anyone interested in poetry,... -
Loving Literature: A Cultural History Deidre Shauna Lynch (University of Toronto) 9780226598390
RRP: $30.96$29.71One of the most common-and wounding-misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don't love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental... -
The Jacqueline Rose Reader by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: $30.95$27.81Jacqueline Rose is a world-renowned critic and one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today. She is also among the most wide ranging, with books on Zionism, feminism, Sylvia Plath, children's fiction, and... -
Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Play by Thomas Karshan 9780199603985
RRP: $170.93$130.23In a speech given in December 1925, Vladimir Nabokov declared that 'everything in the world plays', including 'love, nature, the arts, and domestic puns.' All of Nabokov's novels contain scenes of games: chess, scrabble, cards, football, croquet, tennis,... -
City of Imagination Golgonooza by Kathleen Raine 9781621387589
RRP: $20.00$18.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387589Author Kathleen RaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico Press -
August Wilson's Fences by Ladrica Menson-Furr
$24.95This title provides a guide to the political and historical context of the 1950s and to the African American cultural context.August Wilson is generally acknowledged to be the most respected African American playwright. His cycle of plays spanning the... -
Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections by Sandra Mayer 9781032086620
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book examines the relationship between life writing and celebrity in English-language and comparative literary and cultural contexts, focusing on historical as well as contemporary auto/biographical subjects. With contributions on the... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 2: From Aristarchus to Pappus by I. Thomas 9780674993990
RRP: $32.19$29.97Elemental learning.The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical...