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John Donne's Physics by Professor Elizabeth D. Harvey 9780226833514
RRP: £24.00£23.03A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and medicine. In 1624, poet and preacher John Donne published Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, a book that... -
Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism by Daniel K Green 9780990915034
RRP: £10.99£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990915034Author Daniel K GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Cow Eye PressPublisher Cow Eye PressWeight(grams) 200g -
The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces by Henry James
RRP: £24.00£23.43This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multivolume "New York" Edition of Henry James' fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great... -
The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta Tanure Ojaide (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.) 9780367682880
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms.The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction and conflict, but it is also a region with a rich... -
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls 9780226599373
RRP: £19.00£16.42"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small... -
History: Bks. I-IV by Herodian
RRP: £24.95£23.76A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can... -
Dead Girls by Alice Bolin
RRP: £15.99£10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062657145Author Alice BolinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice by Pat Schneider 9780199933983
RRP: £17.99£15.23Many writing instructors teach writing through autobiography. By considering the lives of others and then contemplating their own lives, aspiring writers discover a wellspring of material that can be used in their prose. While not explicitly for courses,... -
Aristophanes: Clouds Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)) 9780856682100
RRP: £27.99£25.34Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly... -
The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus Kenneth Baxter Wolf 9781802078626
£111.61Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Córdoban Christians, beginning with the monk Isaac in 851, who had denounced Muhammad in public. The first half of the treatise offers an extended apologia in... -
In Defense of Secrets by Anne Dufourmantelle
RRP: £23.99£21.28Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation Prize In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of Secrets champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our humanity. Psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne... -
Dante: Convivio: A Dual-Language Critical Edition by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £30.99£27.77Dante's Convivio, composed in exile between 1304 and 1307, is a series of self-commentaries on three of Dante's long poems. These allegorical love poems and philosophical verse become the basis for philosophical, literary, moral, and political exposition... -
J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace by Andrew Van der Vlies 9780826406613
£18.09This book presents a clearly written introduction to the novel's themes and form, inspired by the author's practical experience of several years of teaching the novel at university level in Britain, as well as his background as a South African-born and... -
A New Life Of Dante by Stephen Bemrose 9780859898454
RRP: £20.00£16.43This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. Dante is an intensely philosophical writer as well as a socio-political one,... -
New Selected Journals, 1939-1995 by Stephen Spender
RRP: £45.00£30.89Private faces in public placesAre wiser and nicerThan public faces in private places.W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his death in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture by David Thatcher Gies 9780521574297
RRP: £26.99£23.20This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide... -
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691157009
RRP: £35.00£28.35Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and... -
About Poems: and how poems are not about Anne Stevenson 9781780373454
RRP: £9.95£6.88In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by... -
Counter-Statement by Kenneth Burke 9780520001961
£25.83A valuable feature of the second edition (1953) of Counter-Statement was the Curriculum Criticum in which the author placed the book in terms of his later work. For this new paperback edition, Mr. Burke continues his "curve of development" in an Addendum... -
Cooking Up the Nation - Spanish Culinary Texts and Culinary Nationalization in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century by Lara Anderson
RRP: £80.00£76.61The book is the first to analyse the textual construction of a national Spanish cuisine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This book looks at the textual attempts to construct a national cuisine made in Spain at the turn of the last... -
Latour and the Humanities by Rita Felski 9781421439211
£85.64How does the work of influential theorist Bruno Latour offer a fresh angle on the practices and purposes of the humanities?In recent years, defenses of the humanities have tended to argue along predictable lines: the humanities foster empathy, the... -
A Literary Tour of Italy Tim Parks 9781846883910
RRP: £12.99£9.19An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks - who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English" - has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life... -
A Study Guide for Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375399456
RRP: £9.95£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375399456Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)... -
In Dialogue with the Agallamh: Essays in Honour of Sean O Coileain by Aidan Doyle 9781846823855
£73.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846823855Author Aidan DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 590g -
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry by Matthew Bevis 9780198713715
£35.60'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.76The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: Revised and updated edition by Marc Leeds
RRP: £36.00£28.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385344234Author Marc LeedsFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by Adilifu Nama
RRP: £23.99£21.57Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2012Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable... -
The Bostonians by Henry James
£100.52The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The Bostonians is an extraordinary political and psychological... -
The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost by Robert Faggen
RRP: £22.99£19.56This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. Frost remains one of the most memorable and beguiling of modern poets. Writing in the tradition of Virgil, Milton, and... -
Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death: or Language Haunted by Sex by Julia Kristeva 9780231210515
RRP: £22.00£17.36Julia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to bear on the tormented and visionary Russian author... -
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry by Jack Zipes
RRP: £35.99£31.69First Published in 1997. Happily Ever After is Jack Zipes's latest work on the fairy tale. Moving from the Renaissance to the present, and between different cultures this book addresses Zipes's ongoing concern with the fairy tale- its impact on children... -
Beyond the Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd by Lukas Erne 9780719079498
RRP: £19.99£18.10Kyd is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries came... -
Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic by Antonio Alcala Gonzalez
RRP: £39.99£35.06Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothic-the double. This volume explores how this ancient notion acquires tremendous force in a region, Latin America, which is itself defined by... -
Macbeth (an undoing) by Zinnie Harris 9780571390977
RRP: £10.99£7.54The revised and updated edition of Zinnie Harris's powerful reimagining of Shakespeare's brutal tragedy, telling Lady Macbeth's story as it has never been heard before. 'A clever, heartfelt and, in the broadest and most persuasive sense, feminist... -
Religio Medici and Other Works: Religio Medici and Other Works by Thomas Browne 9780198114291
£65.93A scholarly edition of an essay by Sir Thomas Browne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198114291Author Thomas BrowneFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Shakespeare'S Storms by Gwilym Jones 9780719089381
RRP: £85.00£74.51Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book Award Whether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, the shipwrecks of the comedies or the thunderbolt of Pericles, there is an instance of storm in every one of... -
Satire John T. Gilmore 9780415480826
RRP: £25.99£22.63What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a weapon for radical change or fundamentally conservative? Is satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Combining thematic, theoretical and historical approaches, John T. Gilmore introduces... -
Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God by Frank Turek 9781641583510
RRP: £14.99£12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641583510Author Frank TurekFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NavPress Publishing GroupPublisher NavPress Publishing Group -
John Clare in Context by Hugh Haughton 9780521020893
RRP: £39.99£32.99The marginalisation of John Clare, despite renewed interest in Romanticism and the literature of madness, is still an enigma. Perhaps more than any other poet of the period, Clare has never found the contexts in which his poetry can be read. This...