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The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents by Kate Aughterson
RRP: $54.58$49.62This comprehensive anthology collects in one volume primary texts and documents relevant to literature, culture and intellectual life in England from 1550 to 1660. Through both well-known and forgotten texts that were influential at the time, the volume... -
The Beginnings of Medieval Romance: Fact and Fiction, 1150-1220 by D. H. Green 9780521049566
RRP: $77.68$65.75Up to the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which were held to convey the truth. The second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre, the... -
James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming 9781628724387
RRP: $27.28$25.33"The most revealing and subjectively penetrating assessment of Baldwin's life yet published." -The New York Times Book Review. "The first Baldwin biography in which one can recognize the human features of this brilliant, troubled, principled, supremely... -
The Three Rimbauds Dominique Noguez 9780857428820
RRP: $27.28$25.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857428820Author Dominique NoguezFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Seagull Books London LtdPublisher Seagull Books London LtdWeight(grams) 127g -
Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization by Stephanie DeGooyer
RRP: $60.90$54.35An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the idea of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge by Lucy Newlyn 9780521659093
RRP: $54.58$46.18Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the most influential, as well as one of the most enigmatic, of all Romantic figures. The possessor of a precocious talent, he dazzled contemporaries with his poetry, journalism, philosophy and oratory without ever quite... -
Catullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position by William Fitzgerald
RRP: $60.90$47.33Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own... -
Halcyon by Gabriele D'Annunzio
RRP: $27.28$19.28Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938), the most influential and controversial Italian poet of the 20th century, published his masterpiece "Halcyon" in 1903. It is a carefully organized sequence of 88 lyrics which, to gain their full effect, must be read as a... -
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by John Newsinger
RRP: $39.88$27.17George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood. ... -
The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture by Peter Garratt 9781349955190
RRP: $209.98$207.71Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Zhuangzi: A New Translation of the Sayings of Master Zhuang as Interpreted by Guo Xiang by Richard John Lynn
RRP: $63.00$48.91The Zhuangzi (Sayings of Master Zhuang) is one of the foundational texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition and the cornerstone of Daoist thought. The earliest and most influential commentary on the Zhuangzi is that of Guo Xiang (265-312), who also... -
Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures Richard North 9781408247709
RRP: $92.38$90.15The Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures provides a scholarly and accessible introduction to the literature which was the inspiration for many of the heroes of modern popular culture, from The Lord of the Rings to... -
Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger by Stephen, H. Grant 9781421411873
RRP: $60.90$54.35In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885,... -
Postmodernism: A Reader by Thomas Docherty 9780745012438
$109.96This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate.About the AuthorThomas Docherty is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.Book InformationISBN... -
The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780195388718
RRP: $33.58$27.99Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go... -
The Key to the "Name of the Rose: Including Translations of All Non-English Passages by Adele J. Haft 9780472086214
$38.51Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose is a brilliant mystery set in a fictitious medieval monastery. The text is rich with literary, historical, and theoretical references that make it eminently re-readable. The Key makes each reading fuller and more... -
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition by Emily Dickinson 9780674018242
RRP: $54.50$40.66Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in... -
Countering The Culture: The Novels of Christiane Rochefort by Margaret-Anne Hutton 9780859895859
RRP: $157.50$127.97This is a study of the nine prose fiction works of Christiane Rochefort written between 1958 and 1988. Despite establishment recognition and a popular mass-market following, Christiane Rochefort has hitherto received little critical attention. Her... -
Beckett and Cioran by Steven Matthews 9781009351553
RRP: $35.70$30.91This Element discusses the association between Samuel Beckett, and the Romanian-born philosopher, E. M. Cioran. It draws upon the known biographical detail, but, more substantially, upon the terms of Beckett's engagement with Cioran's writings, from the... -
In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece Helen Lovatt (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781350115125
RRP: $52.48$42.92Few classical stories are as exciting as that of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The legend of the boy, who discovers a new identity as son of a usurped king and leads a crew of demi-gods and famous heroes, has resonated through the ages, rumbling like the... -
Modern French Short Fiction: An Anthology by Johnnie Gratton
RRP: $31.48$23.00The 15 writers featured in this new anthology of French short stories represent the best of the genre, from Merimee to the present day. The selection includes writers as diverse as Balzac, Colette, Duras and Boulanger and is designed to introduce... -
Repetition and Identity: The Literary Agenda by Catherine Pickstock 9780199683611
RRP: $47.23$46.77The 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... -
Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide David Ross (University of Michigan) 9781405159739
RRP: $69.20$60.73Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil's great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil's poetic images and the mental images with which the Romans... -
Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama by Peter Saccio 9780195123197
RRP: $45.13$28.01Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the... -
William McIlvanney's Laidlaw by Beth Dickson 9780948877360
RRP: $14.60$12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877360Author Beth DicksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 61Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the "Odyssey" by Charles Segal 9780801487262
RRP: $65.10$57.90One of the special charms of the Odyssey, according to Charles Segal, is the way it transports readers to fascinating places. Yet despite the appeal of its narrative, the Odyssey is fully understood only when its style, design, and mythical patterns are... -
Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters by Oliver Ford Davies
RRP: $54.58$47.48A 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... -
Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy by Edith Hall 9780198147800
RRP: $180.60$142.25Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism: these are some of the images by which the Greek tragedians defined the non-Greek, `barbarian' world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson 9780804718226
RRP: $62.98$56.91Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or... -
Romiosini by Yiannis Ritsos 9780992740900
RRP: $18.80$13.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992740900Author Yiannis RitsosFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
Books and Social Media: How the Digital Age is Shaping the Printed Word Miriam J. Johnson 9781032001357
RRP: $77.68$68.84Social media and digital technologies are transforming what and how we read. Books and Social Media considers the way in which readers and writers come together in digital communities to discover and create new works of fiction. This new way of engaging... -
The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach by Robin Behn 9780062730244
$24.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062730244Author Robin BehnFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperReferencePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249g -
George Herbert: 100 Poems by George Herbert 9781107151451
RRP: $41.98$34.48George Herbert (1593-1633) is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet in the English language. His profound influence can be seen in the lasting popularity of his verse. This selection of one hundred lyric poems by Herbert is designed for readers... -
Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance by Sarah Roche-Mahdi
$46.37This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, and makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature and women's studies.The Roman de Silence,... -
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Professor Ivan Morris
RRP: $46.20$33.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345803900Author Ivan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain by Professor James Daybell 9780812248258
RRP: $155.40$137.24The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways... -
Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 by Prof. Virginia Mason Vaughan 9780521102261
RRP: $83.98$69.85Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 examines early modern English actors' impersonations of black Africans. Those blackface performances established dynamic theatrical conventions that were repeated from play to play, plot to plot,... -
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack Zipes 9780691153384
RRP: $73.50$58.70If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot... -
New Wave Shakespeare on Screen Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg College) 9780745633930
RRP: $48.28$42.99The past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in 'staging' Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen introduces and applies the new analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this new wave... -
Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England by Kirilka Stavreva 9780803295865
RRP: $41.98$38.77Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority, simultaneously highlight, in contending narrative lines, their effective...