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Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966 by Xiang Cai 9780822360698
RRP: £25.99£23.24Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and... -
The Troubadours: An Introduction by Simon Gaunt 9780521574730
RRP: £32.99£28.15The dazzling culture of the troubadours - the virtuosity of their songs, the subtlety of their exploration of love, and the glamorous international careers some troubadours enjoyed - fascinated contemporaries and had a lasting influence on European life... -
Mirabai by Robert Bly
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807063873Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 140mm * 8mm -
The Shelf by Phyllis Rose 9780374535360
RRP: £10.99£9.10Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore the "real ground of literature," she reads her way through a... -
Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae: Expanded Edition by Charles Segal
RRP: £65.00£51.30In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the... -
The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy by Bernard M. W. Knox
RRP: £27.00£21.06The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is... -
The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki, Kawabata and Mishima by Gwenn B. Petersen 9780824814762
RRP: £25.95£24.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824814762Author Gwenn B. PetersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press -
Demented Particulars: The Annotated 'Murphy' by Chris Ackerley
RRP: £24.99£23.07Demented Particulars offers a detailed annotation of Samuel Beckett's first published novel, Murphy. The book includes an extensive Introduction, which outlines the compositional and publishing history of the novel, the critical debate, an account of... -
Ehud's Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution by James Holstun 9781859844076
RRP: £28.99£25.09In this meticulously researched, award-winning book, James Holstun details seventeenth-century England's first capitalist revolution, and its first anti-capitalist revolutions, in a stirring project of Marxist history from below."A work brimming with... -
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
RRP: £30.00£23.66How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial miningThe 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller... -
Romantic Image by Frank Kermode 9780415261876
RRP: £12.99£11.94For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Questioning the public's harsh perception of 'the artist', Kermode at the same time gently pokes fun at... -
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe 9780393643350
RRP: £16.00£13.84This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1633 quarto (Q) text-the only authoritative version-with modernised spelling and silent alteration of obvious errors, of confusing punctuation and of word-form changes. A Textual Notes section follows the play... -
Raymond Williams: A Critical Reader Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780745603841
RRP: £17.99£16.29Raymond Williams is widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and influential thinkers of the post-war era. He wrote extensively across a wide range of subjects: from drama and the novel to politics, popular culture and mass communications. He... -
Hamlet and Oedipus by Ernest Jones 9780393007992
RRP: £16.00£13.53A classic study in the psychoanalysis of literature, Hamlet and Oedipus investigates Hamlet's mind as it relates to the general psychological conditions foreshadowed in the Oedipus legend. Dr. Jones gives a comprehensive view of the Hamlet literature and... -
Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition by William Butler Yeats 9780393974973
£26.27"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... -
So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in 'Pride and Prejudice' by Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer
RRP: £24.99£23.78Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death. However there were certainly people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer proposes that Austen wrote about them, without knowing what it... -
The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England by Heather Dubrow
£29.13As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely. While the term has conventionally been applied to brief, songlike poems expressing the speaker's interior thoughts critics have questioned many of the assumptions underlying this definition,... -
Religion in the Roman Empire James B. Rives (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) 9781405106566
RRP: £31.95£28.07This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western EuropeExamines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics... -
The Way We Write: Interviews with Award-winning Writers by Barbara Baker 9780826495051
RRP: £23.99£23.80This book is a unique collection of new interviews with award-winning writers - novelists, poets, playwrights, screenplay writers and children's writers. Each writer discusses their process, both mental and physical: why they write, whom they write for,... -
Balancing Acts: Conversations with Gerald Dawe on a Life in Poetry by Gerald Dawe
RRP: £17.99£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788558167Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
The Philip Larkin I Knew by Maeve Brennan 9780719062766
RRP: £19.99£18.10The Philip Larkin I Knew traces the author's close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University of Hull, taking in his literary achievements from "The Less Deceived" (1955), through "The Whitsun... -
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition by Mark Twain 9780520279940
RRP: £38.00£31.61The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of... -
Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World by David W. Orr
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791408742Author David W. OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The Rope: Volume IV by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: £24.95£23.60Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and... -
W B Yeats - Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
RRP: £12.99£9.34W.B. Yeats' life spanned the end of the nineteeth and the beginning of the twentieth century, and his poetry reflects all the turmoil, fervour, traditions and revolutions of that period. From the quiet beauty of 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' to the... -
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Christine Ma
RRP: £6.50£6.21Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.The authors' central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9780312463182
£14.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312463182Author Mary ShelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning -
Why I'm Not A Millionaire: The dazzling memoir of an extraordinary trailblazer by Nancy Spain
RRP: £9.99£6.06'She was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal in leading the way' Sandi Toksvig'Some people thought her merely bohemian, but others were grateful to have so engaging a role-model' INDEPENDENTThe superb classic... -
The Infection of Thomas de Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism by John Barrell 9780300049329
£44.98Best known for his work Confessions of an English Opium Eater, the Victorian writer Thomas De Quincey was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression, and of racial paranoia who harbored and expressed the most ferocious and brutal... -
Folk Horror: New Global Pathways by Dawn Keetley
RRP: £50.00£42.69While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also been reinventing folk horror for the contemporary... -
Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader by David Theo Goldberg 9780631189121
RRP: £41.95£38.26Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader delineates the prevailing concerns and considerations, principles and practices, concepts and categories that fall under the rubric of "multiculturalism".About the AuthorDavid Theo Goldberg teaches in the School of... -
Simone De Beauvoir's the Second Sex by Ruth Evans 9780719043031
RRP: £19.99£18.10Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous place in the feminist 'canon'. Yet it has had an undeniable impact, not... -
Arguments for a Theatre by Howard Barker 9780719052491
RRP: £19.99£18.10There is no-one else in theatre who takes this position There is a lack of books on serious theatre theory Written in a particularly accessible form.About the AuthorHoward Barker is a dramatist of international standing. His plays hold an increasingly... -
Realism by Pam Morris
RRP: £19.99£17.69Coming to prominence with the nineteenth-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn away from the more sordid and harsh aspects of human existence. However, because realism is unavoidably tied... -
Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe by Laura Kalas 9781526171580
RRP: £25.00£22.03This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of... -
The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England by Gail Kern Paster
RRP: £29.99£26.50Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Paster examines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean... -
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World by Timothy Morton 9780521471350
RRP: £90.00£80.78This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern,... -
The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature by Anna Henchman 9780198797593
£37.23Tracing unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and literature, The Starry Sky Within offers a new understanding of literary point of view as essentially multiple, mobile, and comparative. Nineteenth-century astronomy revealed a... -
William Empson: Essays on Shakespeare by William Empson 9780521311502
RRP: £38.99£33.26At the time of his death in 1984, the poet and critic William Empson was preparing and revising a collection of his essays on Shakespeare. This collection edited by David Pirie, is a book which the literary world has wanted for over half a century. Here,... -
A Sanskrit Treasury: A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library Camillo A. Formigatti 9781851245314
RRP: £50.00£42.93This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas and myths of South Asian literature, including the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Drawing on the translations published by the Clay Sanskrit Library, the book...