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Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance by Ayanna Thompson
RRP: $88.18$77.18The systematic practice of non-traditional or "colorblind" casting began with Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in the 1950s. Although colorblind casting has been practiced for half a century now, it still inspires vehement controversy and... -
Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison 9780679760009
RRP: $44.10$31.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679760009Author Ralph EllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 269gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance by Joseph Roach 9780231203876
RRP: $46.20$36.46In the early eighteenth century, a delegation of Iroquois visited Britain, exciting the imagination of the London crowds with images of the "feathered people" and warlike "Mohocks." Today, performing in a popular Afrodiasporic tradition, "Mardi Gras... -
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway 9780807843499
$75.10Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance... -
Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu 9780198864356
RRP: $23.08$15.14'The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.' In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophobic Bartram-Haugh house with her mysterious Uncle Silas... -
The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance by Arthur Versluis 9780195138870
RRP: $267.75$225.94The term 'Western esotericism' refers to a wide range of spiritual currents including alchemy, Hermeticism, Kabbala, Rosicrucianism, and Christian theosophy, as well as several practical forms of esotericism like cartomancy, geomancy, necromancy,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin
RRP: $41.98$31.98Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often misunderstood. This introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the... -
How Novels Work by John Mullan 9780199281770
RRP: $66.13$49.27Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on... -
Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians by John Colarusso 9780691170404
RRP: $94.50$75.60The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts presents a wide selection of fascinating tales preserved as a living tradition among the peoples of Ossetia in southern Russia, a region where ethnic... -
There and Back Again: J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit by Mark Atherton
$41.98'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.' The prophetic words of Galadriel, addressed to Frodo as he prepared to travel from Lothlorien to Mordor to destroy the One Ring, are just as pertinent to J R R Tolkien's own fiction. For... -
Is the Rectum a Grave?: And Other Essays by Leo Bersani 9780226043548
RRP: $58.80$57.52Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory - his famous meditation on how... -
The Way of the World: Bildungsroman in European Culture by Franco Moretti
$44.60Willhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julian Sorel, Rastignac, Jane Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke...the Golden Age of the European novel discovers a new collective protagonist: youth. It is problematic and restless youth - 'strange' characters, as their... -
Signs of Childness in Children's Books by Peter Hollindale 9780903355445
$21.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903355445Author Peter HollindaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Thimble PressPublisher Thimble Press -
Shakespeare and Masculinity by Bruce R. Smith 9780198711896
$73.29Oxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to... -
The Practice of Writing by David Lodge
RRP: $27.28$19.61In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls the... -
The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe by David Hillman
RRP: $79.78$70.94An examination of how the body--its organs, limbs, and viscera--were represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. This provocative volume demonstrates, the symbolism of body parts challenge our assumptions about "the body" as a... -
Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction by Peter Boxall 9780521187299
RRP: $48.28$37.99The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the... -
Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen by Elspeth Graham
RRP: $69.28$61.24During a period when writing was often the only form of self-expression for women, Her Own Life contains extracts from the autobiographical texts of twelve seventeenth-century women addressing a wide range of issues central to their lives.About the... -
The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention in the Arts and Sciences by Brewster Ghiselin
RRP: $52.50$44.50This unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. Contributors include Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amy Lowell,... -
An Elm Creek Quilts Companion: New Fiction, Traditions, Quilts, and Favorite Moments from the Beloved Series by Jennifer Chiaverini 9780142196700
RRP: $41.79$32.70A beautiful keepsake volume to accompany the beloved New York Times bestselling seriesOver the course of the bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series, readers have expressed a longing to visit Elm Creek Manor, meet the quilters themselves, and admire their... -
Say What I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book & the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition by Dieter Bitterli 9781487525484
RRP: $62.98$56.07Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have... -
Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know by Joseph Pearce 9781733522120
RRP: $29.38$26.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733522120Author Joseph PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press -
One of the Damned: The Life and Times of Robert Tressell by F.C. Ball 9781905007127
$35.97Robert Tressell described his famous book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists as 'the story of twelve months in Hell, told by one of the damned'. This biography of Tressell, first published in 1973, tells the story of a man about whom virtually nothing... -
Adulterer's Tongue: An Anthology of Welsh Poetry in Translation by Bobi Jones
RRP: $31.40$22.55The Adulterer's Tongue casts a brilliant light on the world of Welsh-language poetry. Poetry has been written in Welsh for over fifteen hundred years: an ancient literature, it is also a vibrant part of the culture of modern Europe, often overlooked by... -
Hemingway: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers 9780306808906
$69.36Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The... -
Landscape of Fear: Stephen King's American Gothic by Tony Magistrale 9780879724054
RRP: $35.60$24.89One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, Landscape of Fear (originally published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in the sociopolitical anxieties of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era. In this groundbreaking study, Tony... -
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland Thomson 9780231183178
RRP: $52.50$41.14Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel,... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929 by Valerie Eliot
RRP: $84.00$58.13Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and personal and spiritual consolidation. Following the withdrawal of... -
The Living Days by Ananda Devi 9781999331849
RRP: $25.20$17.01A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, an elderly white woman, and Cub, a British-Jamaican boy, and drives her crumbling world into heightened delusion. The two struggle to keep their footing as... -
Greek Lyric: v. 2: Anacreontea - Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman by D. A. Campbell
RRP: $52.40$49.90Precious snippets of ancient song.The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later... -
Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures 1990 by Christopher Ricks 9780192824073
RRP: $93.43$76.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems C. D. Wright 9781852247621
RRP: $25.20$17.85C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her... -
Battle of the Bulge: A Guide to Modelling the Battle by Ben Skipper 9781399007702
RRP: $35.68$25.79The Battle of the Bulge was the perfect storm for the Allies in late 1944; a tired army, overstretched supply lines, and poor intelligence on what was waiting on the other side of the hill. On 16th December, with almost complete surprise, the Germans... -
The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of "The Journey to the West" by Anthony C. Yu 9780226971568
RRP: $39.90$33.87Anthony C. Yu's celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literature's most beloved classics for English-speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago. Yu's abridgment of his four-volume translation, The... -
Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880 by Isobel Armstrong 9780199205202
$174.89Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print... -
The Troubadours: An Introduction by Simon Gaunt 9780521574730
RRP: $69.28$59.60The dazzling culture of the troubadours - the virtuosity of their songs, the subtlety of their exploration of love, and the glamorous international careers some troubadours enjoyed - fascinated contemporaries and had a lasting influence on European life... -
Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s by Matthew Sturgis 9781843680734
RRP: $37.78$25.87The 1890s have become legendary: the period of Wilde, Beardsley and the Yellow Book; a decadent twilight at the close of the Victorian century, when young poets weary of life sat about drinking absinthe and talking of strange sins. The provenance of... -
Edmund Husserl's "Origin of Geometry": An Introduction by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $50.38$44.44Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry": An Introduction (1962) is Jacques Derrida's earliest published work. In this commentary-interpretation of the famous appendix to Husserl's The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Derrida... -
The Oxford Book of the Sea by Jonathan Raban 9780192801944
RRP: $27.28$19.61It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Seafarer' is only the first in a long series of... -
After Sebald: Essays and Illuminations by John Coetzee 9780957152861
RRP: $33.60$24.38A collection of essays and other texts by eleven internationally acclaimed writers, critics and artists.Over a decade after his death W.G. Sebald remains a major presence in world literature. He has a devoted readership in many different countries. This...