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Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan by Grace Lavery
RRP: €53.55€42.03How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a... -
Book Talk: Occasional Writing on Literature and Children by Aidan Chambers 9780903355476
€9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903355476Author Aidan ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Thimble PressPublisher Thimble Press -
The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust by Adam A. Watt 9780521734325
RRP: €28.55€18.12Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of... -
Don Delillo's "White Noise": A Reader's Guide by Leonard Orr 9780826414748
€20.38A critical examination of "White Noise" by Don Delillo, this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years. A... -
The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic by Susan Castillo Street 9781349693337
RRP: €35.69€33.08This book examines 'Southern Gothic' - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do 'Southern' and 'Gothic' mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss,... -
Dai Greatcoat: A Self-Portrait of David Jones in his Letters by David Jones
RRP: €22.60€14.64'The mind of David Jones is capable of such breathtaking leaps across the centuries, that nothing can appear incongruous in his writings and they all help to shed light on him as an artist and as a poet.' ApolloThrough a selection of letters to friends... -
Pro Milone by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.83Speeches from turbulent times.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death... -
A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance by Frankie Rubinstein 9780333488669
€50.52'...Rubinstein is far from innocent and comes to our aid with a lot of learning...and is quite right to urge that not to appreciate the sexiness of Shakespeare's language impoverishes our own understanding of him. For one thing, it was a strong element... -
The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse by Dr Robert T. Tally Jr. 9781501375842
RRP: €23.79€20.96A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread. At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America... -
When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition by Jack Zipes
RRP: €42.83€37.71For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why?In When Dreams Came True, Jack... -
Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950 by Joseph McAleer 9780198203292
€59.39Before the advent of television, reading was among the most popular of leisure activities. `Light' fiction - romances, thrillers, westerns - was the sustenance of millions in wartime and in peace. This lively and scholarly study examines the size and... -
Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England by Corinne Saunders
RRP: €113.05€100.85An exploration of the development of Middle English portrayals of rape and ravishment in the context of shifting legal, theological and medical attitudes. This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in... -
Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance by Joseph Roach 9780231203876
RRP: €26.18€20.66In 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
RRP: €45.16€41.83Originally 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... -
The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance by Arthur Versluis 9780195138870
RRP: €151.73€128.03The 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,... -
How Novels Work by John Mullan 9780199281770
RRP: €37.47€27.92Never 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... -
There and Back Again: J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit by Mark Atherton
€23.79'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... -
The Way of the World: Bildungsroman in European Culture by Franco Moretti
€24.50Willhelm 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... -
Shakespeare and Masculinity by Bruce R. Smith 9780198711896
€41.53Oxford 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... -
Conversations with Susan Sontag by Leland A. Poague 9780878058341
RRP: €35.64€27.76Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first... -
Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction by Peter Boxall 9780521187299
RRP: €27.36€21.53The 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... -
Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art by Marina van Zuylen 9780801489860
RRP: €33.31€28.73"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence.... Those readers who have brushed against the dangers of the... -
Bid Me to Live by H. D. 9780813061955
€24.37Scholars and students alike will turn to Caroline Zilboorg's edition of H.D.'s Bid Me to Livefor an introduction that provides heretofore unavailable insights and annotations that elucidate the book's countless literary and biblical allusions. A useful,... -
Scottish Poems by Gerard Carruthers
RRP: €14.28€10.04Scotland, like so many other nations, has produced poetry that is patriotic, that paints landscapes, people and situations, that speaks to personal matters, and those equally everyday matters pertaining to the mind and to the spirit. The Christian... -
Imaginary Maps by Mahasweta Devi
RRP: €47.59€41.72Imaginary Maps presents three stories from noted Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi in conjunction with readings of these tales by famed cultural and literary critic, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these... -
Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer by Ann Morgan
RRP: €11.89€8.46'A brilliant, unlikely book' SpectatorHow can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent... -
Writing the Sphinx: Literature, Culture and Egyptology by Eleanor Dobson 9781474476256
RRP: €30.93€25.06This book explores literary and Egyptological cultures from the closing decades of the nineteenth century to the opening decades of the twentieth, culminating in the aftermath of the high-profile discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. Analysing... -
Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know by Joseph Pearce 9781733522120
RRP: €16.65€15.27Apologies 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 -
Feminist Literary Criticism by Mary Eagleton 9780582050150
RRP: €59.49€57.41Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of... -
The Man Who Wasn't There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway by Richard Bradford
RRP: €23.80€18.23A ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's most iconic writer. Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and... -
A Life In Words by Paul Auster
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807771Author Paul AusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh by Paul Russell 9781891271106
€38.39A collection of 10 essays on Early Welsh. Contents: The etymology of Welsh chwith and the semantics and morphology of PIE *k(w)sweibh- ( Peter Schrijver ); Rowynniauc , Rhufoniog : the orthography and phonology of /m/ in Early Welsh ( Paul Russell... -
Hemingway: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers 9780306808906
€39.62Distinguished 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... -
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland Thomson 9780231183178
RRP: €29.75€23.31Extraordinary 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: €47.60€32.94Volume 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... -
Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures 1990 by Christopher Ricks 9780192824073
RRP: €52.94€43.07Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan by Grace Lavery 9780691227795
RRP: €35.70€27.72How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a... -
Sequel to History: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth
RRP: €59.50€46.55Sequel to History offers a comprehensive definition of postmodernism as a reformation of time. Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth uses a diversified theoretical approachdrawing on post-structuralism, feminism, new historicism, and twentieth-century scienceto... -
The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of "The Journey to the West" by Anthony C. Yu 9780226971568
RRP: €22.61€18.84Anthony 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
€99.10Isobel 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...