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The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech by Avital Ronell
RRP: £39.00£34.79The telephone marks the place of an absence. Affiliated with discontinuity, alarm, and silence, it raises fundamental questions about the constitution of self and other, the stability of location, systems of transfer, and the destination of speech... -
The Hidden Jane Austen by John Wiltshire
RRP: £22.99£19.04In this major study, leading Austen scholar John Wiltshire offers new interpretations of Jane Austen's six novels, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1818). Much... -
Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction by Scott McCracken
RRP: £14.99£11.12Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the best seller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. It combines a lucid and accessible account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction with... -
Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life by Steven Shaviro
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685882Author Steven ShaviroFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature by Laurel Plapp 9780415542609
RRP: £33.99£30.00Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since... -
An Analysis of Roland Barthes's Mythologies John E. Gomez 9781912127962
RRP: £6.50£6.21Mythologies is a masterpiece of analysis and interpretation. At its heart, Barthes's collection of essays about the "mythologies" of modern life treats everyday objects and ideas - from professional wrestling, to the Tour de France, to Greta Garbo's face... -
The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics Dean Sluyter 9781608687695
RRP: £16.99£10.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687695Author Dean SluyterFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama by Keir Elam 9780415280181
RRP: £25.99£22.63The late twentieth century saw an explosion of interest in semiotics, the science of the signs and processes by which we communicate. In this study, the first of its kind in English, Keir Elam shows how this new 'science' can provide a radical shift in... -
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: Gender, Race, and Sexuality Ania Loomba 9781472421760
RRP: £43.99£38.14Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women's Collaborative Book Prize 2017Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies is a volume of essays by leading scholars in the field of early modern studies on the history, present state, and future... -
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 10: On the Constitution of the Church and State by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9780691616926
RRP: £50.00£39.82Based on a comparison of early editions, manuscripts, and copies annotated by the poet himself, this edition provides a reliable text of Coleridge's last prose work, first published in 1830. Originally intended to influence public opinion on the Catholic... -
Anna Komnene and Her Times by Thalia Gouma-Peterson 9780815338512
RRP: £41.99£37.04This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anna Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on her times and on subsequent historical works of literature.About the Author Thalia Gouma-Peterson , is... -
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,... -
C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935–1947 by Mark A. Noll 9781514007006
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514007006Author Mark A. NollFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm -
Emma: An Annotated Edition by Jane Austen 9780674048843
RRP: £29.95£25.63Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austen's novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular one. Its numerous film and television adaptations testify to the world's enduring affection for the headstrong, often... -
The Wild Ass's Skin by Honore de Balzac
RRP: £12.99£8.86'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me...' Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and contemplates ending his life by throwing himself... -
Rilke: The Life of the Work by Dr Charlie Louth 9780198885559
RRP: £30.00£27.60The life of Rilke's work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the life unfolding in Rilke's words over the course of his career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us as we read? What does reading involve? These are questions of the... -
Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Cultural History by Catherine Belsey
RRP: £17.99£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474417372Author Catherine BelseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Nineteenth-Century French Poetry: Introductions to Close Reading by Christopher Prendergast 9780521347747
RRP: £38.99£33.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
With William Burroughs by Victor Bockris 9780312147679
RRP: £22.99£15.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147679Author Victor BockrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 408g -
Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust by Paul de Man
RRP: £19.99£19.39This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered by... -
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
RRP: £18.49£13.61When Latin American writers burst on to the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself overnight out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and... -
King Richard ll by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99£8.40In this updated edition of King Richard II, Claire McEachern provides a fresh introductory section in which she discusses the most important productions and scholarly criticism of recent years. Paying particular attention to the focus on religion in... -
Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway by Katherine West Scheil
RRP: £17.99£14.87What has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be reinterpreted and reshaped? Imagining Shakespeare's Wife examines representations of Hathaway, from the earliest... -
Allusion to the Poets by Christopher Ricks 9780199250325
£41.25Allusion to the words and phrases of ancestral voices is one of the hiding-places of poetry's power. Poets appreciate the great debts that they owe to previous poets, and are often duly and newly grateful. Allusion to the Poets consists of twelve essays... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime by Cian Duffy 9781009013055
RRP: £22.99£19.56This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VII: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 2 by Andre Laks
RRP: £24.95£23.76A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Marvel Vault by Peter Sanderson
RRP: £29.99£24.76Ten years after its initial successful publication, The MarvelVault is due for an update. New text and images chroniclehow Marvel has channelled its singular storytelling into ablockbuster movie studio, even as it has stayed true to itshallowed roots in... -
The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case by Batya Gur 9780060995089
RRP: £19.99£14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060995089Author Batya GurFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227g -
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway 9780807843499
£35.26Originally 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... -
Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead by Isabelle Stengers
RRP: £23.99£19.51Didier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of... -
Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H. J. Jackson 9780300097207
£28.51From Pierre de Fermat to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Graham Greene, readers have related to books through the notes they write in the margins. In this pioneering book-the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia-H.J. Jackson surveys an extraordinary... -
Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature by Gregory Jusdanis 9780816619818
RRP: £21.99£19.49This work considers the role literature played in the construction of a national culture - that sphere of shared sentiments, values, and beliefs that define the nation-state in Greece during the last two centuries. Unlike other works that address the... -
The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education by Philip Kitcher 9780190928971
RRP: £36.49£31.73Philip Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World offers a sweeping vision of the goals of education. Kitcher considers the ways in which schools and universities should advance their goals, explores the social changes required to make high-quality... -
Apologia. Florida. De Deo Socratis by Apuleius
RRP: £24.95£23.76Oratory and philosophy from a Latin novelist.Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. AD 125 in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens,... -
Aristophanes: Lysistrata by James Robson
RRP: £17.99£15.94Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes' comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves around a sex strike launched by the women of Greece in an attempt to force their husbands to end the war. With its risque humour, vibrant... -
Living in Language: International reflections for the practising poet: 2024 by Erica Hesketh 9781739894856
RRP: £15.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739894856Author Erica HeskethFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre -
Imaginary Existences: A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams Ignes Sodre 9780415749442
RRP: £44.99£39.28Imaginary Existences: A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely... -
A Preface to Paradise Lost: Ballard Matthews Lecture 1941 by C. S. Lewis 9788126904563
£18.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788126904563Author C. S. LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Atlantic Publishers & Distributors Pvt LtdPublisher Atlantic Publishers & Distributors... -
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx
RRP: £18.49£13.34For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links... -
Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts by Marie Loughlin
RRP: £25.00£18.32Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550-1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and...