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(Non)Human Bodies: In Various Contexts by Inci Bilgin Tekin
RRP: €39.27€34.80This volume addresses its reader after Covid, a time when the distinction between"the fantastic" or "the virtual" and "the real" was blurred and what man would havethought to be a part of an American science fiction movie, became a real experience.A... -
Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion by Gail Kern Paster
RRP: €33.31€29.20How translatable is the language of the emotions across cultures and time? What connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early modern period, have faded or shifted completely in our own? If Western culture has traditionally held emotion... -
The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism by Nicholas Saul 9780521613262
RRP: €32.12€27.61The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students... -
Kipling and Yeats at 150: Retrospectives/Perspectives by Promodini Varma
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book evaluates the parallels, divergences, and convergences in the literary legacies of Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats. Coming 150 years after their birth, the volume sheds light on the conversational undercurrents that pull together the... -
The World of Bede by Peter Hunter Blair 9780521398190
RRP: €47.59€39.58An engaging and accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of the Venerable Bede (d.735), this book (originally published in 1970) is available again for the enjoyment of all those interested in the early medieval world. With an... -
Conrad under Familial Eyes by Zdzislaw Najder 9780521025225
RRP: €36.88€28.32This volume brings together a wide range of letters and documents which collectively shed a great deal of light on Joseph Conrad's cultural roots, a subject of growing interest in recent years. The texts have been edited by Professor Zdzislaw Najder, one... -
Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church by Richard Firth Green 9780812248432
RRP: €69.02€60.18In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyland. Taking as his starting point the assumption that... -
Perpetual Orgy by Mario Vargas Llosa 9780374520625
€14.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374520625Author Mario Vargas LlosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
A Commentary on Propertius, Book 3 by S. J. Heyworth 9780199571499
€35.22The most passionate, individual, and controversial of the Latin love elegists, Propertius in Book 3 covers a broad range of subject matter and a vast geographical reach. After books focused on his mistress Cynthia, he maintains his elegiac role but... -
The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings (1867-1893) by Charles S. Peirce
RRP: €28.55€25.28" . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." -Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books"The Monist essays are included in the first volume of the compact and welcome... -
A Short History of French Literature by Sarah Kay 9780199291182
RRP: €54.73€45.67This book traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the present. Within its remarkably brief compass, it offers a wide-ranging, personal, and detailed account of major writers and movements. Developments in French literature are... -
The Spirit of Controversy: and Other Essays by William Hazlitt
RRP: €13.08€9.48William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and... -
Greek Lyric: v. 4: Bacchylides, Corinna and Others by David A. Campbell
RRP: €29.69€27.83Precious snippets of ancient song.Bacchylides, nephew of Simonides and rival of Pindar, wrote choral poetry of many types. We have a number of his victory odes-poems celebrating victories in athletic contests-as well as dithyrambs and other hymns. He was... -
The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and Fantasy of Empire by Thomas Richards
RRP: €17.84€17.28Nineteenth-century Britain could be seen as the first information society in history-for the simple reason that it accumulated knowledge from the far-flung corners of its empire faster than it could easily digest it. The British Empire presented a vast... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy by Karen Weisman 9780199228133
RRP: €148.75€142.21Mourning and memorialization are at the very centre of literary culture. They take on forms deeply resonant of the sundry traditions of poetic elegy even when those elegiac conventions are displaced, concealed, or plainly unintentional. For all of its... -
Humboldt, Worldview and Language by James W. Underhill
RRP: €26.17€21.38This title is a study of the linguistic philosophy of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Prussian philologist and politician. From linguists such as Sapir, Whorf and Chomsky to philosophers such as Heidegger and sociologists such as Bourdieu, the idea that a language... -
Lectures on Literature by Fredson Bowers
RRP: €23.79€17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027755Author Vladimir NabokovFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 338gDimensions(mm) 205mm *... -
Basho: The Complete Haiku by Matsuo Basho
RRP: €29.75€19.97Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese... -
Romanticism: 100 Poems by Michael Ferber
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Romanticism', though a debated term, is broadly understood as a cultural movement which gripped the European imagination in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Embodying a poetics of feeling intersecting with nature and the notion of the... -
Siete Cuentos: By Julio CortaZar by P. Beardsall 9780719039232
RRP: €17.84€16.23One of the core authors of the '60s boom in Latin American fiction, Julio Cortazar made a contribution of international importance to the development of the short story as a literary form. This collection spans his writing career and includes La Noche... -
Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction by Susan Bassnett
RRP: €41.59€36.69This major new introduction to comparative literature is for the students coming to the subject for the first time. Through an examination of a series of case studies and new theoretical developments, Bassnett reviews the current state of comparative... -
A Short Survey of Surrealism by David Gascoyne 9781900564663
RRP: €10.65€7.64Gascoyne's membership of the Surrealist movement and his association with its leading members - among them Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali - placed him in an ideal position to witness and record the development and significance of... -
Bakhtinian Thought:Intro Read by Professor Simon Dentith
RRP: €47.59€41.72First published in 1994. Mikhail Bakhtin, and the writers associated with him, have come to be recognised as writers of trail-blazing importance. Working in the extraordinarily difficult conditions of Stalinist Russia, they nevertheless produced a body... -
The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi by Robert S.C. Gordon 9780521604611
RRP: €30.93€26.17Primo Levi (1919-87) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical fiction and essays. In particular, his lucid and direct accounts of his time at Auschwitz, begun immediately... -
After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline
RRP: €20.22€13.73After Agatha: Women Write Crime is the first book to examine how British, American and Canadian female crime writers pursue their craft and what they think about crime writing. Hundreds of women who identified as lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual,... -
The Love Language of Flowers by Jess Buttermore 9781684811915
RRP: €36.88€24.59A Fresh Twist on Vintage Flower Meanings & Arrangements"This book is enchanting to the eyes, inspiring for the mind, and refreshing for the soul." -Maggie Hyde, Petal Back Farm#1 New Release in Plant & Animal Photography, Photograpy Equipment &... -
Walther von der Vogelweide: The Single-Stanza Lyrics by Frederick Goldin
RRP: €47.59€42.91Walther von der Vogelweide was the greatest German lyric poet of the Middle Ages. He created and performed songs for the noblest courts of the Holy Roman Empire. Though every German-speaking school-child can recite some of Walther's lines, his has... -
Performativity by James Loxley
RRP: €23.79€21.05Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications? Contemporary theorists have considered the ways in which the... -
Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward by Caroline McCracken-Flesher
RRP: €24.98€22.91Walter Scott in the twenty-first century Ten essays that show Scott is a man for our times Major scholars introduce a new Walter Scott New ideas on the novel and temporality New ideas about Scott's playful textuality Introducing the women of... -
Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide by Owen Holland 9781848319042
RRP: €10.70€7.24From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline.Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and... -
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities by Anne Whitehead
RRP: €49.98€40.90In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and... -
The Homeric Hymns by Apostolos N. Athanassakis
RRP: €26.78€23.70The best-selling, essential, and straightforward translation of the Homeric Hymns, accompanied by an expanded introduction and updated expert notes.A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric Hymns are also fine poetry... -
An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly by Will Stockton
RRP: €40.45€35.70An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tracking the emergence of queer theory out of gay and lesbian studies, this book pays unique attention to... -
Writing History, Writing Trauma by Dominick LaCapra
RRP: €29.75€26.22Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the... -
Aristophanis Fabvlae II by N. G. Wilson 9780198721819
RRP: €29.14€28.88This new edition of Aristophanes is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text published in 1900-1. Since that date it has been possible to construct a far better picture of the transmission of the text from antiquity to the age of printing... -
James Joyce's Ulysses: Critical Essays by Clive Hart
RRP: €34.51€27.30This book contains eighteen original essays by leading Joyce scholars on the eighteen separate chapters of "Ulysses". It attempts to explore the richness of Joyce's extraordinary novel more fully than could be done by any single scholar. Joyce's habit of... -
Binge by Oakley 9781501117701
RRP: €19.04€13.54Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781501117701Author OakleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 142mm * 19mm -
Historical Texts from Medieval Wales by Patricia Williams 9781907322693
€20.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322693Author Patricia WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research... -
Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century by Andrew Smith 9780312230425
RRP: €107.09€106.95Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicizes psychoanalysis through a new, and significant, theorization of the Gothic. The central premise is that the nineteenth-century Gothic produced a radical critique of accounts of... -
Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff!: Roy's True Story by Barrie Tomlinson
RRP: €17.84€13.73Roy Race was Melchester Rovers' super striker, and later manager and chairman; he is known everywhere simply as 'Roy of the Rovers'. Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff is the inside story of his life with Melchester, told by the man who knows him better than...