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William Empson: Essays on Shakespeare by William Empson 9780521311502
RRP: €46.40€39.58At 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,... -
Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English by Robert Scholes 9780300037265
€21.54"Robert Scholes has written an enviable book on the uses and abuses of literary theory in the teaching of literature. One of [his] most forceful points...is that 'literary theory' is not something a teacher may either 'use' or not use, for teaching... -
The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin
RRP: €30.93€26.17Best 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... -
Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary by Christopher Ehret
RRP: €83.30€65.81This work provides the first truly comprehensive and systematic reconstruction of proto-Afroasiatic (proto-Afrasian). It rigorously applies, throughout, the established canon and techniques of the historical-comparative method. It also fully incorporates... -
Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature by Sharae Deckard 9781781381915
RRP: €29.74€26.67The ambition of this book is to resituate the problem of 'world literature', considered as a revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the theory of combined and uneven development. This theory has a long... -
Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change by Adam Trexler 9780813936925
€35.52Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth's... -
Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in "the Lord of the Rings" by Fleming Rutledge 9780802824974
RRP: €22.60€22.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802824974Author Fleming RutledgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 373Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century by Nancy Glazener 9780199390137
RRP: €97.58€78.46Literature in the contemporary sense, comprised of drama, fiction, poetry, and certain kinds of nonfiction prose, cohered during the nineteenth century and became the defining object of departments of modern languages and literatures in U.S. research... -
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory by Matthew Garrett
RRP: €28.55€24.24Narrative theory is essential to everything from history to lyric poetry, from novels to the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Narrative theory explores how stories work and how we make them work. This Companion is both an introduction and a contribution to... -
Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader by Mary Eagleton
RRP: €40.40€36.15Now in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field Fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field over the last decadeIncludes extracts from all the major... -
Philosophy and German Literature, 1700-1990 by Nicholas Saul 9780521660525
RRP: €107.09€92.21Although the importance of the interplay of literature and philosophy in Germany has often been examined within individual works or groups of works by particular authors, little research has been undertaken into the broader dialogue of German literature... -
The Wolf Man's Magic Word: A Cryptonymy by Nicolas Abraham
RRP: €23.79€20.87The Wolf Man's Magic Word reopens the examination of the "Wolf Man," a Russian emigre who was Freud's patient and who wrote his own memoirs. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's work is at once the account of the Wolf Man's psychological inventions, a... -
The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men by J. Andrew Deman 9781477325452
RRP: €41.65€36.58A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author's subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time. By the time Chris Claremont's run as author of Uncanny X-Men ended in 1991, he had changed comic books forever. During his... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama by Carolyn Williams
RRP: €28.55€24.72This newly commissioned series of essays by leading scholars is the first volume to offer both an overview of the field and also current emerging critical views on the history, form, and influence of English melodrama. Authoritative voices provide an... -
History and Community: Essays in Victorian Medievalism by Florence S. Boos
RRP: €27.36€24.47The essays in this volume, originally published in 1992, examine some of the pervasive implications of Victorian medievalism, and assess its creative manifestations and dual capacities for expression of reformist anger and escapist retreat. Some of the... -
The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster by David Bradshaw
RRP: €30.93€26.17This collection of essays, each one by a recognized expert, provides lively and innovative readings of every aspect of Forster's wide-ranging career. It includes substantial chapters dedicated to his two major novels, Howards End and A Passage to India,... -
Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare: 'Rich in Will' by Joan Lord Hall
RRP: €36.89€34.14Analyses how far Shakespeare succeeds in reconciling two polarised areas in the early modern period: sexual desire, or will, and idealised approaches to romantic love Emphasizes cultural and semantic differences between Shakespeare's age and our own... -
History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824 by Carol Davison 9780708320457
RRP: €15.46€11.54History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824 offers a detailed and accessible introduction to classic British Gothic literature and the popular sub-genre of the Female Gothic. Works by such classic Gothic authors as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis,... -
The Roman Games: Historical Sources in Translation by Alison Futrell
RRP: €40.40€35.68This sourcebook presents a wealth of material relating to every aspect of Roman spectacles, especially gladiatorial combat and chariot racing. Draws on the words of eye-witnesses and participants, as well as depictions of the games in mosaics and other... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600 by Arthur F. Kinney
RRP: €32.12€27.61This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing... -
Volume 6 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz: Niklaus Von Flüe And Saint Perpetua: A Psychological Interpretation of Their Visions by Marie-Louise Von Franz 9781685030308
RRP: €67.83€53.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685030308Author Marie-Louise Von FranzFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Cult Writers: 50 Nonconformist Novelists You Need to Know by Ian Haydn Smith
RRP: €15.46€14.02WHAT MAKES A CULT WRITER? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique or critically divisive, cult writers come in all shapes and guises. Some gain instant fame, others instant notoriety, and more still remain anonymous until a... -
Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality by Gayle Salamon 9780231149594
RRP: €33.32€25.94We believe we know our bodies intimately--that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however,... -
The Play Of The Eyes by Elias Canetti 9781847083555
RRP: €11.89€7.97The third volume of Canetti's autobiography is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937: years when the European catastrophe, already clear to anyone with eyes to see, was approaching its horrifying climax. To this great intellectual and spiritual... -
Hans-Georg Gadamer by Karl Simms 9780415493093
RRP: €30.93€26.93Hans-Georg Gadamer's theory of hermeneutics is one of the most important modern theories of interpretation and understanding, and at its heart is the experience of reading literature. In this clear and comprehensive guide to Gadamer's thought, Karl... -
Classical Love Poetry by Jonathan Williams
RRP: €11.89€8.09From the darkly erotic poetry of Sappho to the bawdy advice of Ovid, love is a ubiquitous theme in Classical poetry. This newly revised edition collects the best short poems and extracts from the Classical tradition, by authors including Virgil, Homer,... -
Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic by Maurice Levy 9780814319567
RRP: €29.69€22.61Maurice L?vy's book is a penetrating analysis of the themes running through the works of H. P. Lovecraft, the writer of horror and supernatural fiction. Broader than a thematic study, however, L?vy's analysis is unique in his use of Lovecraft's work as a... -
The Challenges of Uncertainty: Introduction to Seventeenth-century Spanish Literature by Jeremy Robbins 9780715628409
RRP: €27.36€27.19An introduction to Spanish Baroque literature and culture, this text considers works by major Spanish novelists, dramatists, poets and painters. It covers issues such as honour and identity, the influence of the court, social and literary institutions,... -
The Return of the Native: A Norton Critical Edition by Thomas Hardy 9780393927870
€24.24It is accompanied by more than 500 editorial footnotes, many new to this edition, that provide essential historical background and glossing of dialect words. Also new to the Second Edition are the twelve illustrations from the novel's first serial... -
Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages by David Carrillo-Rangel 9783030260316
RRP: €65.44€65.21This book addresses the history of the senses in relation to affective piety and its role in devotional practices in the late Middle Ages, focusing on the sense of touch. It argues that only by deeply analysing this specific context of perception can the... -
Time and the Rose Garden: Encountering the Magical in the Life and Works of J.B. Priestley by Anthony Peake 9781782794578
RRP: €15.46€13.64J.B. Priestley is considered by many to be an old-fashioned playwright whose work is locked in a pre-war world of provincialism and whose ideas are way past their sell-by date. In Time and the Rose Garden, internationally recognised author Anthony Peake... -
Retelling the Tale: An Introduction to Medieval French Literature by Simon Gaunt 9780715629253
€30.29The function of literature and words changes dramatically over the centuries, particularly when dealing with medieval literature. The most common misconception among students and dated textbooks is that medieval French literature is merely a 'recording'... -
Ulysses on the Liffey by Professor Richard Ellmann 9780195016635
RRP: €43.42€30.29A new and illuminating critique of the narrative, ethical and aesthetic strands in Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses.Book InformationISBN 9780195016635Author Professor Richard EllmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher... -
The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction by Alison Shonkwiler 9781517901523
RRP: €26.17€22.84As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by neoliberalism and globalization, increasing financial abstraction has presented a new political urgency for contemporary writers. Globalized finance, the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and the... -
A New Companion to The Gothic by David Punter
RRP: €42.78€38.16The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on 'Global Gothic' reflects the direction Gothic... -
The Edexcel Poetry Anthology: Relationships - The Student Guide by David Wheeler 9781911477310
RRP: €23.79€18.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911477310Author David WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Red Axe BooksPublisher Red Axe Books -
Works: v. 1 by Demosthenes
RRP: €29.69€27.83The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's rise... -
Great Books by David Denby 9780684835334
€23.93Explores the current debate about what constitutes a classic and the revolutionary power great works of literature contain.Book InformationISBN 9780684835334Author DenbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon &... -
Method of Medicine: v. I, Bk. 1-4 by Galen
RRP: €29.69€27.83Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner, who... -
Jeanette Winterson: A Contemporary Critical Guide by Sonya Andermahr 9780826492753
€32.61"Jeanette Winterson: A Contemporary Vritical Guide" is a comprehensive introduction to Winterson's writing. It brings together new essays by leading critics writing on key topics across her work from early successes like "Oranges are Not...