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Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God by William C. Chittick
$127.58In this book William C. Chittick provides a first-time look at historic Persian literature and the topic of love, which is at the heart of Islamic spiritual thought. It contains extensive Arabic and Persian material, from the Qur'an up through the... -
The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth 9780691196947
RRP: $52.50$50.59"Fascinating, gorgeously illustrated and thought-provoking. . . . [A] masterful book."-Elizabeth Hand, Washington PostA lavishly illustrated look at the locales familiar to J. R. R. Tolkien, the creator of Middle-earthThis book takes you to the places... -
A Defense of Judgment by Michael W Clune
RRP: $50.40$48.36Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange, or insightful-and thus, which are more worthy of time and attention than others. Yet the field of literary studies has... -
The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature by Siegfried Wenzel 9780807836835
$96.05Wenzel presents the history of the concept of acedia, of spiritual sloth,"" from its origins among the Egyptian desert monks through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The investigation proceeds in chronological order and pays close attention... -
Shakespeare's Tragedies Emma Smith (Oxford University) 9780631220107
RRP: $88.10$77.72This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare's tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare's tragedies. Covers both significant early views... -
The New Feminist Literary Studies by Jennifer Cooke
RRP: $39.88$36.18The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains... -
Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency Eva Feder Kittay 9781138089921
RRP: $75.58$67.07This new edition of Eva Feder Kittay's feminist classic, Love's Labor, explores how theories of justice and morality must be reconfigured when intersecting with care and dependency, and the failure of policy towards women who engage in care work. The... -
Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch Luke O'Sullivan 9781399522960
RRP: $189.00$172.14Doubtful Writing offers a major reassessment of philosophical uncertainty in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters. It argues that Montaigne's engagement, his endless 'commerce' with two dogmatists, Seneca and Plutarch, produced a radical... -
Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey by Daniel Keyes 9780156029995
RRP: $39.88$28.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156029995Author Daniel KeyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 141mm *... -
The Road Goes Ever On: A Christian Journey Through The Lord of the Rings by Trese Gloriod 9780997067514
RRP: $27.32$20.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997067514Author Trese GloriodFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint A. K. FraileyPublisher A. K. FraileyWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
The Mabinogion (Complete): Translated From The Red Book Of Hergest By Lady Charlotte Guest, Edited By Owen M. Edwards by Charlotte Guest (Charlotte Schreiber) 9789353363864
RRP: $27.30$24.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353363864Author Charlotte Guest (Charlotte Schreiber)Format PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams)... -
What Ever Happened to Modernism? by Gabriel Josipovici 9780300178005
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Jean Rhys by Sylvie Maurel
$71.88Jean Rhys' writings are examined through the frames of feminist criticism and literary theory, providing close readings of the texts and their language. The book explores the various forms of feminine dissent at work in Jean Rhys' fiction. She is shown... -
The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope by Carolyn Dever 9780521713955
RRP: $54.58$46.18Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England,... -
The Contemporary British Novel by Philip Tew 9780826493200
RRP: $115.48$114.93"The Contemporary British Novel" is a lively, wide-ranging guide to the key issues in writing in Britain since the mid-1970s, including social change, gender, sexuality, class, history and ethnicity. Designed to address problems faced by... -
Cavafy's Alexandria: Expanded Edition by Edmund Keeley 9780691044989
RRP: $94.50$74.76C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first... -
Argonautica by Valerius Flaccus
RRP: $52.40$52.16The Roman epic retelling of the quest for the golden fleece.Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, Latin poet who flourished in the period ca. AD 70-90, composed in smooth and sometimes obscure style an incomplete epic Argonautica in eight books, on the auest for the... -
Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett by Bennett Simon 9780300058055
$47.00One of the most important characteristics of tragic drama-as of psychoanalysis- is the focus on the family. Dr. Bennett Simon here provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea, Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, O'Neill's... -
Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place by Lenka Filipova 9780367754655
RRP: $83.98$73.63The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental writing at the turn of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the notion of place as a way of interrogating the socio-political... -
There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: Essays on Tolkien's Middle-earth by Verlyn Flieger
RRP: $69.20$58.36Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he called faerie, a world they both create and inhabit, and... -
History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past by Jason Steinhauer 9783030851163
RRP: $48.28$35.55The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History... -
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness by Rhodri Lewis
RRP: $58.80$46.49An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare's HamletHamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern... -
A Plea For Eros by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: $20.98$14.70FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes . . . A book to renew one's faith in the literary essay' Robert... -
Balkan Essays by Chris Agee 9780993553202
RRP: $52.50$45.36Collection of essays by Hubert Butler, edited by Chris Agee and Jacob Agee, published by The Irish Pages PressBook InformationISBN 9780993553202Author Chris AgeeFormat HardbackImprint IRISH PAGESPublisher IRISH PAGES -
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson
RRP: $73.48$64.03This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World... -
Walther von der Vogelweide: The Single-Stanza Lyrics Frederick Goldin 9781138986879
RRP: $83.98$76.29Walther von der Vogelweide was the greatest German lyric poet of the Middle Ages. He created and performed songs for the noblest courts of the Holy Roman Empire. Though every German-speaking school-child can recite some of Walther's lines, his has... -
Music's Spell Emily Fragos 9781841597836
RRP: $25.20$17.93Music may be the universal language that needs no words-the "language where all language ends," as Rilke put it-but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse.Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth... -
A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic by Christine Brooke-Rose 9780521276566
RRP: $65.08$59.77This 1981 book is a study of wide range of fiction, from short stories to tales of horror, from fairy-tales and romances to science fiction, to which the rather loose term 'fantastic' has been applied. Cutting across this wide field, Professor... -
The Aphorism and Other Short Forms Ben Grant 9780415829298
RRP: $41.98$37.15The aphorism captures a huge amount of truth, meaning or wit in a very short statement. It has been used and studied from classical times to contemporary theory and takes on a new relevance when we look at today's communication media such as text... -
Selected Poems: Peter France by Aleksandr Blok
RRP: $20.90$17.62Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived thought his country's savage wars and radical traumas, trying to welcome the new order. But there was no space in it for his kind of imagination. His poem "The Twelve" has claims to being the first great poem of the... -
William Shakespeare: A Very Peculiar History by Jacqueline Morley 9781908177148
RRP: $16.78$11.19William Shakespeare, A Very Peculiar History uniquely explores the life and works of the widely-regarded greatest writer of the English language. Through dispelling common myths (Could his father really not read or write? What really happened during 'the... -
Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading: Essays by Lisa Jardine and Others by Anthony Grafton 9781800081666
RRP: $73.50$65.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081666Author Anthony GraftonFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 30mm -
Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter by Ewan Fernie
RRP: $65.08$45.97Shakespeare for Freedom presents a powerful, plausible and political argument for Shakespeare's meaning and value. It ranges across the breadth of the Shakespeare phenomenon, offering a new interpretation not just of the characters and plays, but also of... -
The Conscript: A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War by Gebreyesus Hailu
RRP: $27.28$25.10Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception... -
Centenary Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa 9781857547245
RRP: $41.90$29.44'Author of paradoxes as clear as water and, as water, dizzying ...mysterious man who does not cultivate mystery, mysterious as the mid-day moon, taciturn phantom of the Portuguese mid-day - who is Pessoa?' asks Octavio Paz. This collection of the work of... -
Why War?: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein Jacqueline Rose (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London) 9780631189244
RRP: $81.80$72.37Over the past decade, psychoanalysis has been a focus of continuing controversy for feminism, and at the centre of debates in the humanities about how we read literature and culture. In these essays, Jacqueline Rose continues her engagement with these... -
An Analysis of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics Laura Key 9781912127375
RRP: $13.65$13.04Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics is one of the most influential texts of the 20th-century - an astonishing feat for what is, at heart, a series of deeply technical lectures about the structure of human languages. What the Course's... -
Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: $35.68$27.64The debate and discussion around Game of Thrones has covered questions of climate issues, industrialization, and questions of power, sex and gender. But in this essential companion to both George R.R. Martin's novels and the HBO show, Carolyne Larrington... -
States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic by Professor Alice Kaplan
RRP: $33.60$29.06States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel The Plague as a palimpsest of our own pandemic life, its account of the psychology and politics of quarantine uncannily relevant to our time. One of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert... -
Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters by H P Lovecraft 9781614982791
RRP: $52.50$46.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982791Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 152g