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The Learned Banqueters: v. 5: Books 10.420e-11 by Athenaeus
RRP: €29.69€27.83Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of ... -
Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey 9780195394436
RRP: €46.40€28.32This is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies. By examining African, Caribbean, Pacific Island and South Asian literatures and how they depict the relationship between humans and... -
The Prophecies by Nostradamus
RRP: €21.41€15.84The predictions of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating. He has been credited with anticipating the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Today, as the world... -
The Primacy of Semiosis: An Ontology of Relations by Paul Bains 9781442626980
RRP: €35.69€28.73How do things come to stand for something other than themselves? An understanding of the ontology of relations allows for a compelling account of the action of signs. The Primacy of Semiosis is concerned with the ontology of relations and semiosis, the... -
Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Conceptualizing Identity and Staging Boundaries by Rebecca Steinberger 9781138620537
RRP: €23.79€21.05Exploring the influence of Shakespeare on drama in Ireland, the author examines works by two representative playwrights: Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) and Brian Friel (1929-). Shakespeare's plays, grounded in history, nationalism, and imperialism, are... -
The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China by Gang Yue 9780822323419
RRP: €30.93€27.24The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality... -
Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture by Jonathan Smith 9780521135795
RRP: €44.02€27.67Although The Origin of Species contained just a single visual illustration, Charles Darwin's other books, from his monograph on barnacles in the early 1850s to his volume on earthworms in 1881, were copiously illustrated by well-known artists and... -
Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change by Carolyn Fornoff 9780826506177
€40.40Subjunctive Aesthetics argues for the importance of ecocritical approaches within the field of Mexican Studies. While environmental historians of Mexico have been leading the charge in terms of foregrounding the nonhuman as a legitimate object of... -
Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers by Annette Dauphin Simon
RRP: €23.80€21.72A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems-a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines-illustrated with 110 full-color photographs.Easy to create and share online, spine poems-also known as collage poems... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway by Scott Donaldson
RRP: €32.12€27.13This Companion serves both as an introduction for the interested reader and as a source of the best recent scholarship on the author and his works. In addition to analysing his major texts, the contributors provide insights into Hemingway's relationship... -
The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism by Nivedita Majumdar
€23.79The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural... -
Latin Literature: A History by Gian Biagio Conte 9780801862533
RRP: €53.55€48.58This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a... -
An Oxfordshire Christmas by David Green 9780752453132
RRP: €11.89€8.98This seasonal anthology of festive fare will delight Oxfordshire readers - and those further afield - during the season of goodwill, from Advent to Twelfth Night. Here are reminiscences of Christmases past at Blenheim Palace and Broughton Castle, and,... -
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene by Stefania Barca
RRP: €20.23€17.52The concept of Anthropocene has been incorporated within a hegemonic narrative that represents 'Man' as the dominant geological force of our epoch, emphasizing the destruction and salvation power of industrial technologies. This Element develops a... -
Vastarien, Vol. 1, Issue 1 by Matt Cardin 9780692089279
RRP: €17.84€16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692089279Author Matt CardinFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Grimscribe PressPublisher Grimscribe PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 9780393284171
€19.71This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The first American edition (1889) of the novel, approved by Twain and published by his own company. * All 241 original illustrations, bringing to life Twain's admiration for King Arthur, Merlin and Camelot as... -
Herodotus: Histories Book I by Carolyn Dewald
RRP: €118.99€104.49In the Histories, which could loosely be translated as 'Investigations' or 'Researches,' Herodotus tells how the Persian Empire began, grew, and then met defeat in Greece in his parents' generation. Book 1 begins that story. It introduces both the world... -
The Selfish Gene by Nicola Davis
RRP: €7.74€7.27Richard Dawkins provides excellent examples of his reasoning and interpretation skills in The Selfish Gene. His 1976 book is not a work of original research, but instead a careful explanation of evolution, combined with an argument for a particular... -
A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction by Linda Hutcheon
RRP: €47.59€41.72First published in 1988. Postmodernism is a word much used and misused in a variety of disciplines, including literature, visual arts, film, architecture, literary theory, history, and philosophy. A Poetics of Postmodernism is neither a defense nor a... -
On Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: €28.56€27.41Part of the Complete Works series, On Benefits, written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca's close friend Aebutius Liberalis. The longest of Seneca's works dealing with a single subject - how to give and receive benefits and how to... -
Full Volume by Robert Crawford 9780224080873
RRP: €14.28€10.04Holding in balance the ecological and the technological, ancient and modern, Full Volume sings languages and cultures, people and habitats burgeoning on the brink of extinction. From revved-up battle-cry to nervous whisper, these lyrical poems praise... -
A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts by Katherine Bowers 9781618117274
RRP: €41.64€40.14The powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevsky's Russia. A Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts aims to help students... -
Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain by Professor James Daybell 9780812248258
RRP: €88.06€77.17The 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... -
Metaphor by Denis Donoghue 9780674430662
RRP: €42.78€34.46Denis Donoghue turns his attention to the practice of metaphor and to its lesser cousins, simile, metonym, and synecdoche. Metaphor ("a carrying or bearing across") supposes that an ordinary word could have been used in a statement but hasn't been... -
The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser 9781421422824
RRP: €29.75€22.74Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame,... -
Fires on the Plain by Shohei Ooka 9780313205675
€57.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313205675Author Shohei OokaFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The English Novel in History 1700-1780 by John Richetti
RRP: €45.21€39.72The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture by Zygmunt G. Bara'nski 9780521559829
RRP: €32.12€27.61This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Contributions focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism,... -
Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama by Eleanor Johnson
RRP: €30.94€29.57What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an Introduction by Charles Harold Herford) by William Shakespeare 9781420952582
€8.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420952582Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest by W. H. Auden 9780691123844
RRP: €26.18€19.37Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W. H. Auden... -
Marvel Comics' Black Panther: Wakanda Cookbook by Nyanyika Banda 9781803360621
RRP: €29.74€15.78Wakanda forever! Celebrate the flavors of Africa with this cookbook inspired by over fifty years of Black Panther comics. Create meals fit for a king with this cookbook featuring over seventy delicious recipes from Wakanda and the African continent... -
A Companion to Jane Austen by Claudia L. Johnson 9780470672389
RRP: €42.78€38.16Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. Provides the most... -
Children's Literature in Hitler's Germany: The Cultural Policy of National Socialism by Christa Kamenetsky 9780821423646
RRP: €30.93€26.76Between 1933 and 1945, National Socialists enacted a focused effort to propagandize children's literature by distorting existing German values and traditions with the aim of creating a homogenous "folk community." A vast censorship committee in Berlin... -
Fairy Tale by Andrew Teverson 9780415616065
RRP: €27.36€23.99This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It: explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genreassesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of... -
Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery by James A.W. Heffernan 9780226323145
RRP: €33.32€32.59Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the verbal representation of visual representation. Profoundly ambivalent, ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the silent image even as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority of the... -
50 Books for Life: A Concise Guide to Catholic Literature by Roy Peachey 9781621384687
RRP: €18.45€16.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384687Author Roy PeacheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Angelico Press/Second SpringPublisher Angelico Press/Second SpringWeight(grams)... -
The Mummy's Curse: The true history of a dark fantasy by Roger Luckhurst 9780198718802
€22.60In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular... -
Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out by Shannon Reed 9781335007964
RRP: €33.31€19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335007964Author Shannon ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 218mm... -
Coleridge's Poetry and Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9780393979046
€30.87His writings are wide-ranging in form and content, and vast in number. Norton's long-awaited edition is the most comprehensive and user-friendly student edition available. Supporting apparatus includes detailed headnotes, footnotes (both Coleridge's and...