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George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic: Compelling Contradictions by Constance Fulmer
RRP: £41.99£36.75George Eliot's serious readers have been intrigued by the fact that she declared that she had lost her faith in God and had renounced her hope for a traditional Christian heaven and yet she continued to preach her own version of morality in everything... -
The Pardoner's Tale: York Notes Advanced by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: £7.99£6.15Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical... -
The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature by Hilda Roderick Ellis 9780837100708
£48.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837100708Author Hilda Roderick EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Iphigenia At Aulis by Euripedes
RRP: £14.99£10.23High King Agamemnon faces the most crushing dilemma of his life. Kill his beloved eldest daughter? Or forfeit victory in the Trojan War? A father's secret plot clashes with a girl's romantic dreams in this chilling classic play from Ancient Greece... -
Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters by Oliver Ford Davies
RRP: £25.99£22.61A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of this theme, relating it to the little we know of his own... -
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
£8.64A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general... -
Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach by Michael McKeon 9780801863974
RRP: £36.50£34.13Michael McKeon, author of The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, here assembles a collection of influential essays on the theory of the novel. Carefully chosen selections from Frye, Benjamin, Levi-Strauss, Lukacs, Bakhtin, and other prominent... -
The Warrior Song of King Gesar by Douglas J Penick 9780974597461
RRP: £16.95£14.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974597461Author Douglas J PenickFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Mountain Treasury PressPublisher Mountain Treasury PressWeight(grams)... -
The Annotated Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 9780393060294
RRP: £27.99£24.26Frances Hodgson Burnett was famous in her time for her adult novels and her forays into children's literature with Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess. The Secret Garden, her story of an orphan girl who moves from India to the British... -
Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed by Mary Klages 9780826490735
RRP: £21.99£21.89This "Guide for the Perplexed" provides an advanced introduction to literary theory from basic information and orientation for the uninformed leading on to more sophisticated readings. It engages directly with the difficulty many students find... -
Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture by Joanna Hubbs
RRP: £25.99£22.49A ground-breaking interpretation of Russian culture from prehistory to the present, dealing with the feminine myth as a central cultural forceA ground-breaking interpretation of Russian culture from prehistory to the present, dealing with the feminine... -
Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters by Robert Pinsky 9780393050684
RRP: £20.99£16.16Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work:... -
Swoon: A Poetics of Passing out by Naomi Booth 9781526171603
RRP: £20.00£14.53Swoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swooning’s rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. This study demonstrates that passing-out has had a pivotal place in English literature... -
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight by Terrance Hayes 9781940696614
RRP: £17.99£12.30"Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air." -NPRIn these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself." Personal... -
Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia by Miya Qiong Xie
RRP: £54.95£43.66Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kobo, and Zhong Lihe-these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all described Manchuria extensively in their literary works. Now China's Northeast but a contested frontier in the first half of the... -
The Poetry of Yunus Emre, A Turkish Sufi Poet by Grace Martin Smith
RRP: £31.00£28.25The popularity of Yunus Emre, who is often referred to as the Turkish national poet, has endured for six centuries. Yunus is the most important representative of early Turkish mysticism; he can be considered the founder of Alevi-Bektasi literature, and... -
Historicism by Paul Hamilton
RRP: £19.99£17.69Historicism is the essential introduction to the field, providing its readers with the necessary knowledge, background and vocabulary to apply it in their own studies. Paul Hamilton's compact and comprehensive guide: * explains the theory and basics of... -
Rituals of Self-revelation: Shishosetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-cultural Phenomenon by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit 9780674773196
RRP: £38.95£31.69Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit brings a sophisticated and graceful method of analysis to this English translation of her book on the shishosetsu, one of the most important yet misunderstood genres in Japanese literature. Thorough and insightful, this study... -
For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More by Graham Tarrant
RRP: £19.99£11.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510741577Author Graham TarrantFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century: The Literary Agenda by Maryanne Wolf 9780198724179
RRP: £23.49£19.97The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
Twilight and History by Nancy R. Reagin 9780470581780
£12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470581780Author Nancy R. ReaginFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader by Stephen Regan
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader provides a comprehensive selection of contemporary and modern essays on the most important novels of the period. By bringing together a range of material written across two centuries, it offers an insight... -
Yeats's Poems by A. Norman Jeffares 9780333510612
RRP: £29.99£28.78Here 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... -
The Afterlife of St Cuthbert: Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500 by Christiania Whitehead
RRP: £22.99£20.66This ambitious book presents the first sustained analysis of the evolving representation of Cuthbert, the premier saint of northern England. The study spans both major and neglected texts across eight centuries, from his earliest depictions in anonymous... -
The Great Mirror of Male Love by Saikaku Ihara
RRP: £24.99£21.67A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures."-Journal of Japanese StudiesBook InformationISBN 9780804718950Author Paul... -
Along Heroic Lines by Christopher Ricks 9780192894656
RRP: £22.99£19.56A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the... -
California Continuum, Volume 1: Migrations and Amalgamations by Grant Hier 9781938349812
RRP: £21.00£15.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938349812Author Grant HierFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint PelekinesisPublisher PelekinesisWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm -
Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature by Teresa N Washington 9780991073054
RRP: £44.48£40.74Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Prison Notebooks by Lorenzo Fusaro 9781912127429
RRP: £6.50£6.11Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks is a remarkable work, not only because it was written in jail as the Italian Marxist thinker fell victim to political oppression in his home country, but also because it shows his impressive analytical ability.First... -
Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings by Eileen Barrett
RRP: £24.99£21.67The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions as The New York Review of Books now pair her with William Shakespeare in promotional advertisements; her face... -
William Wordsworth: 21st-Century Oxford Authors by Stephen Gill 9780199699599
RRP: £31.49£20.04The 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: £30.99£27.17Horace 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: £30.00£23.29Fredric 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... -
Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied by Alexander Etkind 9780804773935
RRP: £23.99£20.84After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to... -
Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader by Ken Hiltner
RRP: £39.99£35.46Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader charts the growth of this important field. The first-wave ecocriticism section focuses on key readings from the 1960s to the 1990s. The second-wave ecocriticism section goes on to consider a range of exciting... -
Shakespeare: staging the world by Jonathan Bate 9780714128245
RRP: £25.00£17.98Authoritative, surprising, evocative and original, Shakespeare: staging the world offers a completely new approach to one of the most exceptional creative imaginations in history. While matters of religion, trade and war were being contested, the role of... -
Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin by Tom Cohen 9780521599672
RRP: £37.99£31.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
William Blake in Context by Sarah Haggarty
RRP: £23.99£21.51William Blake, poet and artist, is a figure often understood to have 'created his own system'. Combining close readings and detailed analysis of a range of Blake's work, from lyrical songs to later myth, from writing to visual art, this collection of... -
The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780801491177
RRP: £22.99£19.49This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism... -
Walter Map and the Matter of Britain by Joshua Byron Smith 9780812249323
£69.24Why would the sprawling thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands known for his stinging satire, religious skepticism, ghost stories, and...