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Arguments for a Theatre by Howard Barker 9780719052491
RRP: $38.98$34.75There 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... -
Ulysses by Hugh Kenner
RRP: $53.63$47.03With characteristic flair, Kenner explores the ways Joyce teaches us to read his novel as Joyce taught himself to write it: moving from the simple to the complex, from the familiar to the strange and new, from the norms of the nineteenth-century novel to... -
Algernon Charles Swinburne: Selected Writings by Francis O'Gorman 9780198858775
RRP: $50.68$44.40This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). This authoritative edition presents students with a new, more complete, more challenging,... -
Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function by Robert Weimann
RRP: $53.63$47.03Criticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from the theater, and the theater from society at large. 'It is only when Elizabethan society, theater, and... -
The Greek Classics by Manutius, Aldus
RRP: $58.40$46.14Aldus Manutius (c. 1451-1515) was the most important and innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was responsible for more first editions of classical literature, philosophy and science than any other publisher before or since... -
A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets by Michael Schoenfeldt
RRP: $81.80$72.40This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare's sonnets. An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets.Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both... -
Horace Satires: A Selection by John Godwin
$30.65This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Horace's Satires, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Satires 1.1 lines 1-12, 28-100; 1.3 lines 25-75; and 2.2 lines 1-30,... -
Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature by Kevin Pelletier 9780820339481
$93.50In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be... -
Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance: Revised Edition by David Norbrook 9780199247196
RRP: $107.25$93.05Since its first publication in 1984, Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance has been recognized as the most comprehensive and authoritative study of its kind. For this new edition, Norbrook has provided an extensive afterword which gives an... -
Shakespeare / Text: Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance by Dr Claire M. L. Bourne
$75.56Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary - such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext,... -
Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts by Alcuin Blamires 9780198710394
RRP: $103.35$81.28This sourcebook of texts in modern translation makes accessible key anti-feminist works, together with a surprising range of early texts championing women. This book is intended for all post sixth-form levels of scholarship studying English and European... -
Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read by Barbara Lounsberry 9780813061399
$50.60Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf's first palm-sized leather diary, Becoming Virginia Woolf illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers,... -
The History of Polish Literature, Updated edition by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: $68.25$54.87This book is a survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Czeslaw Milosz updated this edition in 1983 and added an epilogue to bring the discussion up to date.Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980About the... -
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
RRP: $27.28$23.95From Pinocchio to The Chronicles of Narnia to Charlotte's Web, classic children's tales have shaped generations of young people. In recent years, homeschoolers and new classical schools have put these masterpieces of children's literature at the center... -
The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation by William Franke 9781009016919
RRP: $44.83$40.29In Canto XVIII of Paradiso, Dante sees thirty-five letters of Scripture - LOVE JUSTICE, YOU WHO RULE THE EARTH - 'painted' one after the other in the sky. It is an epiphany that encapsulates the Paradiso, staging its ultimate goal - the divine vision... -
G.W.M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics, and the Press by Anne Humpherys 9780367887964
RRP: $77.98$68.37G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian era that until now has been largely unacknowledged. A prolific novelist whose work had a massive circulation, and an influential journalist and editor, he was a man of contradictions in... -
Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic by Christopher Prendergast 9780691155203
$105.59Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in... -
Greek Mythology Explained: A Deeper Look at Classical Greek Lore and Myth by Marios Christou 9781633538962
RRP: $29.23$21.41Ancient Greek Gods and Mythology Explored Like Never Before#1 Bestseller in Ancient & Classical LiteratureDiscover six classic stories of Greek mythology in this exciting retelling that paints both famous and lesser-known Greek gods in a whole new light... -
The Origins of Dislike by Amit Chaudhuri 9780198793823
RRP: $57.51$41.22'Strategic thinking for a writer articulates itself as dislike and as allegiance.' In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers... -
The Little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The Rope: Volume IV by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: $48.65$45.61Funny 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language by Lynne Magnusson
RRP: $146.25$117.02The power of Shakespeare's complex language - his linguistic playfulness, poetic diction and dramatic dialogue - inspires and challenges students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers across the globe. It has iconic status and enormous resonance, even as... -
Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism by James Simpson
RRP: $58.40$46.14How did the Reformation, which initially promoted decidedly illiberal positions, end up laying the groundwork for Western liberalism?The English Reformation began as an evangelical movement driven by an unyielding belief in predestination, intolerance,... -
The Textual Condition by Jerome J. McGann
RRP: $87.75$68.87Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical... -
Sex, Literature and Censorship by Jonathan Dollimore 9780745627649
$35.28Those who love and live by art, tell us that it is the most exalted expression of civilized life. In this provocative new book Jonathan Dollimore argues that, far from confirming humane values, literature more often than not violates them. He begins with... -
Michel Tournier by Michael Worton
$83.19This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier.About the AuthorMichael Worton is Vice-Provost and Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature at University College London.Book... -
As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Pre-History of Virtual Reality by Michael T. Saler 9780195343175
RRP: $82.86$52.47Many people throughout the world "inhabit" fantastic imaginary worlds in a communal fashion, enthusiastically discussing the fine points of The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, and Harry Potter, or banding together in online virtual worlds such as World of... -
Write Like Hemingway by Cider Mill Press 9781604338874
RRP: $25.33$16.54An examination of how The Kansas City Star's style guide shaped Hemingway's unmistakable writing style.Acclaimed for his lean, succinct prose, Write Like Hemingway connects the dots between Ernest Hemingway's earliest writing job and his most memorable... -
On Camus by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $15.58$13.69A window onto one of the most consequential friendships in philosophical history, that of Sartre and Camus-and on its end. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of... -
Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s by Matthew Sturgis 9781843680734
RRP: $35.08$23.67The 1890s have become legendary: the period of Wilde, Beardsley and the Yellow Book; a decadent twilight at the close of the Victorian century, when young poets weary of life sat about drinking absinthe and talking of strange sins. The provenance of... -
Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere by Stacey Balkan 9780271091594
RRP: $58.40$52.47Oil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible not only the pervasiveness of oil in society and culture... -
Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology by John R. Gordon 9780956971968
$25.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956971968Author John R. GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Team Angelica PublishingPublisher Team Angelica Publishing -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867948
RRP: $74.08$62.75This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the war years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's... -
Song and Its Fountains by George William Russell 9781597313131
$25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597313131Author George William RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Coracle PressPublisher Coracle PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Lives And Extraordinary Adventures Of Fifteen Tramp Writers From The Golden Age Of Vagabondage by Ian Cutler 9781627310840
RRP: $37.03$25.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310840Author Ian CutlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Auto/Biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice by Laura Marcus 9780719055300
RRP: $38.98$34.75In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.About the AuthorLaura Marcus is Lecturer in English... -
Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction by Jerome H. Delamater 9780313304620
$162.32Combining theoretical and practical approaches, this collection of essays explores classic detective fiction from a variety of contemporary viewpoints. Among the diverse perspectives are those which interrogate the way the genre reflects important social... -
Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $40.93$35.82Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism,... -
The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism by Professor S. Pearl Brilmyer
RRP: $52.65$51.62The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new... -
Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust: A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past by Howard Moss 9781589880795
RRP: $31.18$20.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880795Author Howard MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 168g -
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 9780393963328
$28.63The text of The Mill on the Floss, that of the 1862 third edition for which Eliot made her last revisions, has been annotated in order to assist the reader with obscure references and allusions. "Backgrounds" includes fifteen letters from the 1859-69...