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Literary Theory: A Beginner's Guide by Clare Connors 9781851687305
RRP: £9.99£6.41Rescuing the subject from deadly dry theorists and -isms, Clare Connors focuses on the real questions that emerge when we read and study literature - such as how we find meaning and how literature relates to its historical context - before exploring the... -
Swift and Pope: Satirists in Dialogue by Dustin H. Griffin 9780521761239
RRP: £90.00£67.25Swift and Pope were lifelong friends and fellow satirists with shared literary sensibilities. But there were significant differences - demographic, psychological, and literary - between them: an Anglican and a Roman Catholic, an Irishman and an... -
Searching for the Anthropocene: A Journey into the Environmental Humanities by Christopher Schaberg
£25.15Debated, denied, unheard of, encompassing: The Anthropocene is a vexed topic, and requires interdisciplinary imagination. Starting at the author's home in rural northern Michigan and zooming out to perceive a dizzying global matrix, Christopher... -
Critique and Postcritique by Elizabeth S. Anker
RRP: £22.99£20.01Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the functions and futures of critique. The contributors to Critique and Postcritique join this conversation, evaluating... -
How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves by Paul John Eakin
RRP: £24.99£21.67The popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss, has led columnists to call ours "the age of memoir." And while some critics have derided the explosion of memoir... -
Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 4 by Dennis P Quinn 9781614983613
RRP: £20.00£16.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983613Author Dennis P QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century by Katrina O'Loughlin
RRP: £30.99£21.91The eighteenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of voyages and travels, genuine and fictional. Within a genre distinguished by its diversity, curiosity, and experimental impulses, Katrina O'Loughlin investigates not just how... -
How Joyce Wrote "Finnegans Wake: A Chapter-by-chapter Genetic Guide by Luca Crispi 9780299218645
RRP: £39.95£38.50In this landmark study of James Joyce's ""Finnegans Wake"", Luca Crispi and Sam Slote have brought together leading Joyce experts to explore the genesis of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing works of fiction. Each essay... -
The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism by Stefan Collini
RRP: £21.49£19.50This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words... -
The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study by Rachel Sagner Buurma
RRP: £26.00£24.85The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan open up "the teaching archive"-the syllabuses, course descriptions, lecture notes,... -
New Essays on The Catcher in the Rye by Jack Salzman 9780521377980
RRP: £23.99£20.37First published in 1951, Catcher in the Rye continues to be one of the most popular novels ever written as well as one of the most frequently banned books in the United States. In his introduction to this volume, Jack Salzman discusses the history of the... -
Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought by Dr. Elizabeth Sarah Dodd
RRP: £80.00£76.61New essays on Thomas Traherne challenge traditional critical readings of the poet. Thomas Traherne has all too often been defined and studied as a solitary thinker, "out of his time", and not as a participant in the complex intellectual currents of... -
Beyond Twisted Sorrow: The Promise of Country Noir by Jay A Gertzman 9781643962702
RRP: £19.50£13.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643962702Author Jay A GertzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Down & Out BooksPublisher Down & Out BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels by Hsu-Ming Teo
RRP: £27.99£24.14The Sheik-E. M. Hull's best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino-kindled "sheik fever" across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically "Oriental" swept through fashion, film, and... -
The Actual One: How I Tried, and Failed, to Avoid Adulthood Forever by Isy Suttie 9780062571977
RRP: £18.99£13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062571977Author Isy SuttieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Don Paterson by Ben Wilkinson 9781837644421
RRP: £18.99£17.34Don Paterson is one of Britain's leading contemporary poets. A popular writer as well as a formidably intelligent one, he has won both a dedicated readership and most of Britain's major poetry prizes, including the T. S. Eliot Prize on two occasions,... -
Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha by Wael Hallaq
RRP: £55.00£43.31Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosopher Abdurrahman Taha, one of the most significant philosophers in the Islamic world since the colonial era. Wael B... -
Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide by David O. Ross 9781405159739
RRP: £32.95£29.14Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil's great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil's poetic images and the mental images with which the Romans... -
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
RRP: £26.99£14.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062947369Author Azar NafisiFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 646g -
Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness by Jonathan Kramnick
RRP: £24.00£23.03How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that addresses problems of consciousness? In Paper Minds, Jonathan Kramnick takes up these vital questions, exploring the relations... -
The Blackwell History of the Latin Language by James Clackson
RRP: £35.95£31.67This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language... -
Paul Ricoeur by Karl Simms
RRP: £25.99£22.63Paul Ricoeur is one of the most wide-ranging thinkers to emerge in the twentieth century. He has developed a unique 'theory of reading' or hermeneutics, which extends far beyond the reading of literary works to build into a theory for the reading of... -
The Poem is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them by Stephen Burt
RRP: £29.95£24.06Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty-and sheer variety-leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help... -
Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema by Laura Marcus
RRP: £23.99£19.99Laura 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... -
Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen by Elspeth Graham
RRP: £32.99£29.16During 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... -
Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts by Naomi Milthorpe 9781611478761
RRP: £42.00£36.93Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) is one of the twentieth century's great prose stylists and the author of a suite of devastating satires on modern English life, from his first unforgettably funny novel Decline and Fall, to his last work of fiction, "Basil Seal... -
The Book of Books: Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to Milton by Thomas Fulton
RRP: £62.00£53.96Just as the Reformation was a movement of intertwined theological and political aims, many individual authors of the time shifted back and forth between biblical interpretation and political writing. Two foundational figures in the history of the... -
The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey
RRP: £9.99£6.70The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and... -
Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris by Karen Newman 9780691141107
RRP: £32.00£29.13Social theories of modernity focus on the nineteenth century as the period when Western Europe was transformed by urbanization. Cities became thriving metropolitan centers as a result of economic, political, and social changes wrought by the industrial... -
Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss 9780823251728
RRP: £21.99£19.19Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity-which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation-this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and... -
Forensic Shakespeare by Quentin Skinner 9780198816430
RRP: £25.49£18.09Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and... -
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell
RRP: £15.99£13.16This is an affectionate and revealing book about uncovering the story behind this most uncommon trio - a man, a boy and his tiger. For ten years, "Calvin and Hobbes" was one of the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the... -
The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913) by Peirce Edition Project
RRP: £27.99£24.54Praise for Volume 1:" . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." -Louis Menand, The New York Review of BooksVolume 2 of this convenient two-volume chronological reader's... -
Women Beware Women: A Critical Guide by Andrew Hiscock
RRP: £31.99£30.33This is a comprehensive introduction to Thomas Middleton's "Women Beware Women" - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. Thomas Middleton's intense study of... -
Postmodernist Fiction by Brian McHale
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and... -
Melancholy by Laszlo F. Foldenyi
RRP: £32.50£31.58A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foeldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time." Foeldenyi's extraordinary Melancholy,... -
Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition by William Butler Yeats 9780393974973
£25.45"Criticism" includes twenty-four interpretive essays by T. S. Eliot, Daniel Albright, Douglas Archibald, Harold Bloom, George Bornstein, Elizabeth Cullingford, Paul de Man, Richard Ellman, R. F. Foster, Stephen Gwynn, Seamus Heaney, Marjorie Howes, John... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost by Robert Faggen 9780521670067
RRP: £19.99£16.13Robert Frost is one of the most popular American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon close reading. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre. The... -
Two Lives of St. Cuthbert by Bertram Colgrave 9780521313858
RRP: £43.99£37.16These two complementary lives of Cuthbert illuminate both the secular history of the golden age of Northumbria and the historic shift from Celtic to Roman ecclesiastical practice which took place after the Synod of Whitby. Cuthbert was very much in the... -
Korean Mythology: Folklore and Legends from the Korean Peninsula by Sebastian Berg 9780645445626
RRP: £7.99£5.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645445626Author Sebastian BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 82g