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The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin
RRP: $54.58$46.18Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and... -
Yeats's Poems by A. Norman Jeffares 9780333510612
RRP: $62.98$60.44Here in one volume is the entire canon of Yeat's verse, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He was a poet and playwright, storyteller and visionary. The author also wrote "Yeats: Man and Poet".Book InformationISBN... -
Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) by Torquato Tasso 9780801863233
RRP: $69.30$63.32Late in the eleventh century the First Crusade culminated in the conquest of Jerusalem by Christian armies. Five centuries later, when Torquato Tasso began to search for a subject worthy of an epic, Jerusalem was governed by a sultan, Europe was in the... -
Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest by Janet Adelman 9780415900393
RRP: $77.68$69.15An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall.Book InformationISBN 9780415900393Author Janet... -
William Wordsworth: 21st-Century Oxford Authors by Stephen Gill 9780199699599
RRP: $66.13$42.08The Wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of one of the finest poets in the English language. The familiar poems from Wordsworth's 'Great Decade' are... -
The Cambridge Companion to Horace by Stephen Harrison
RRP: $65.08$57.06Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He... -
The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism by Fredric Jameson
RRP: $63.00$49.69Fredric Jameson's survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship between the synchronic methods of Saussurean... -
A Companion to Goethe`s Faust - Parts I and II by Paul Bishop
RRP: $69.28$60.90Cutting-edge criticism on major aspects of Goethe's best-known work. Undisputedly a canonical work, Goethe's Faust is also the key to understanding its author, one of European civilization's most complex figures. Written over several decades, the work... -
Revision Express AS and A2 English Literature by Alan Gardiner
RRP: $31.48$25.94If you're looking for a fast, focussed and effective way to revise for your AS or A2 exams, Revision Express is the answer. Now fully updated for the new A-levels, Revision Express covers everything you need for success in your exams. Each chapter is... -
The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill by Elaine Aston 9780521728942
RRP: $56.68$47.88Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion... -
Empire, Colony, Postcolony by Robert J. C. Young
RRP: $50.30$44.04Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary... -
Sound Objects by James A. Steintrager
RRP: $48.28$42.02Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound's elusive... -
Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin by Tom Cohen 9780521599672
RRP: $79.78$65.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Literature and Gender by Lizbeth Goodman
RRP: $77.68$69.15Literature and Gender combines an introduction to and an anthology of literary texts which powerfully demonstrate the relevance of gender issues to the study of literature. The volume covers all three major literary genres - poetry, fiction and drama -... -
The Classics in Modernist Translation by Lynn Kozak
RRP: $231.00$118.36This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight 'translation,' a concept the modernists... -
The Making of Jane Austen Devoney Looser (Professor, Arizona State University) 9781421428994
RRP: $34.65$32.95An engaging account of how Jane Austen became a household name.Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people,... -
Shakespeare on Page and Stage: Selected Essays by Prof Stanley Wells
RRP: $35.68$30.89This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon... -
A Companion to Latin Literature Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford) 9781405161312
RRP: $83.90$73.86A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD. Provides expert overview of the main periods of Latin literary history, major... -
The Mother / Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism by Marianne Hirsch
RRP: $46.18$40.30Mothers and daughters-the female figures neglected by classic psychoanalysis and submerged in traditional narrative-are at the center of this book. The novels of nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers from the Western European and North American... -
Brunetto Latini, La rettorica by Stefania D'Agata D'Ottavi
RRP: $36.75$30.45Brunetto Latini's La rettorica is the first Italian translation of Cicero's early and widely influential De inventione, and this volume is a translation of Latini's translation, including both Cicero's work and Brunetto's commentary.About the... -
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field by Editor Tara L Masih 9780978984861
RRP: $33.50$23.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Year's Work in Medievalism, 2002 by Jesse G Swan 9781592443819
RRP: $39.90$30.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592443819Author Jesse G SwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Our Secret Territory: The Essence of Storytelling by Laura Simms
RRP: $41.98$27.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591811725Author Laura SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 320g -
Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course Laura Kalas 9781843846840
RRP: $52.48$50.23The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse. Margery Kempe's various illnesses, mental, spiritual and physical, are a recurring theme in her Book. This volume, the first full-length interdisciplinary study from a medical... -
Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction by Carrie Hintz
RRP: $113.40$104.60Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently animating the field of children's literature. Informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural studies and critical theory, it... -
History: Bks. V-VIII by Herodian
RRP: $52.40$49.90A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can... -
Managing Scotland's Environment by Charles Warren
RRP: $81.90$77.87Scotland's natural environment is its most treasured asset and the subject of its most vociferous debates. In this book Charles Warren tackles the hottest current debates - land reform, the future of farming, public access, conservation of moorland and... -
Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition by Ahmed El Shamsy
RRP: $52.50$41.79The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and... -
Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton
$36.58Terry Eagleton is one of the most important-and most radical-theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary... -
Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities And Colonial Literature by Richard R. Ruppel 9780816637652
RRP: $44.08$38.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816637652Author Philip HoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Voice Without Restraint: Bob Dylan's Lyrics 1961 - 1979 by John Herdman
RRP: $20.98$15.12Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in June 2016, and seldom in recent years has it been more richly deserved. That a song writer's lyrics should be regarded as literature was an idea at which many were surprised. Others have... -
A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination by Haiyan Lee
RRP: $54.60$52.19A much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines China's unique political-legal culture. To many outsiders, China has an image as a realm of Oriental despotism where law is at best window dressing and at worst an instrument of coercion and... -
The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 by E. J. Clery 9780521664585
RRP: $65.08$53.45A genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment. This book charts the troubled entry of the supernatural into fiction, and questions the historical reasons for its growing popularity in the late... -
Shakespeare's Dead Emma Smith 9781851242474
RRP: $41.98$36.48Pyramus: 'Now die, die, die, die, die.' [Dies] A Midsummer Night's Dream 'Shakespeare's Dead' reveals the unique ways in which Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking... -
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction by Charles Baxter 9781555975081
RRP: $37.80$23.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975081Author Charles BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 161mm... -
Endymion: John Lyly by David Bevington 9780719030918
RRP: $31.48$29.06Full and comprehensive commentary. Solid and scholarly introduction. A welcome edition to this renouned series .About the AuthorDavid Bevington is Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities at the University of ChicagoBook InformationISBN... -
The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales by Anne Duggan 9781789147698
RRP: $33.60$24.40People often associate fairy tales with Disney films, and with the male authors from whom Disney often drew inspiration - notably Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. In these portrayals the princess is a passive, compliant... -
Bad English: Literature, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Britain by Rachael Gilmour 9781526163820
RRP: $52.50$45.76Bad English investigates the impact of increasing language diversity, precipitated by migration, globalisation, and new forms of communication, in transforming contemporary literature in Britain. Considering writers whose work engages experimentally,... -
Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections by Bonnie Kime Scott
RRP: $73.50$66.65Selects the best from the last fifteen years of feminist literary and modernist scholarshipSelects the best from the last fifteen years of feminist literary and modernist scholarshipAbout the AuthorBonnie Kime Scott is a professor of English and women's... -
Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction by Emma Nicholson 9780192866769
RRP: $246.75$222.83Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait of Philip V and aims to advance our knowledge of both the Macedonian king and the historian. It takes a...