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Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media by Marie-Laure Ryan 9781421417974
RRP: $64.05$57.04Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive "game"... -
Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019 by Natasha Stagg
RRP: $33.58$20.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900965Author Natasha StaggFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 17mm -
Curious Questions & Answers about Rainforests by Anne Rooney 9781789892178
RRP: $27.28$11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789892178Author Anne RooneyFormat HardbackImprint Miles Kelly Publishing LtdPublisher Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd -
Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar by Sallust
RRP: $52.40$49.90Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign... -
The Idea of Culture Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631219668
RRP: $52.40$46.45Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it.About the AuthorTerry Eagleton is Professor of... -
Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative by George Edgar Slusser 9780820314495
$66.80Will novels and stories be relevant in the next millenium, when the boundaries between illusion and reality, and observer and observed, may dissipate in a whirl of images, signals, and data? This essay collection divines the prospects of fiction in the... -
The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech by Avital Ronell
RRP: $81.90$73.06The 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: $48.28$39.98In 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: $31.48$23.35Pulp 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: $48.30$31.86Apologies 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: $71.38$63.00Zionism 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... -
The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics Dean Sluyter 9781608687695
RRP: $35.68$22.03Apologies 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: $54.58$47.52The 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: $92.38$80.09Winner 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: $105.00$83.62Based 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... -
Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions by Leslie Lockett
RRP: $77.70$69.45Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning... -
Anna Komnene and Her Times by Thalia Gouma-Peterson 9780815338512
RRP: $88.18$77.78This 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: $68.25$66.32A 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: $35.68$25.79Apologies 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: $62.90$53.82Emma, 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: $27.28$18.61'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: $63.00$57.96The 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: $37.78$31.23Apologies 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: $81.88$69.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
With William Burroughs by Victor Bockris 9780312147679
RRP: $48.28$31.84Apologies 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: $41.98$40.72This 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: $38.83$28.58When 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: $20.98$17.64In 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: $37.78$31.23What 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
$86.63Allusion 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: $48.28$41.08This 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: $52.40$49.90A 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: $62.98$52.00Ten 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: $41.98$29.90Apologies 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
$74.05Originally 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: $50.38$40.97Didier 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
$59.87From 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: $46.18$40.93This 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: $76.63$66.63Philip 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: $52.40$49.90Oratory 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,...