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Introduction to Twentieth Century Italian Literature: A Difficult Modernity by Robert Gordon 9780715634370
$32.83Short accessible introductions to European literature and culture. Twentieth-century Italy was marked by a profound and often convulsive transformation in both society and culture, accompanied at various stages by war, violence and dictatorship. This was... -
Frankenstein's Brain: Puzzles and Conundrums in Mary Shelley's Monstrous Masterpiece by John Sutherland
RRP: $12.89$8.77200 years on from the first publication of Frankenstein, John Sutherland delves into the deepest, darkest corners of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece to see what strange and terrifying secrets lie within. Is Victor Frankenstein a member of the... -
The Bible As It Was by James L. Kugel
RRP: $42.51$35.93This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how... -
Milton's Grand Style by Christopher Ricks 9780198120902
RRP: $67.08$53.33'Milton's Grand Style' has been vigorously attacked in the 20th century, and this book is an attempt to refute Milton's detractors by showing the delicacy and subtlety which is to be found in the verse of Paradise Lost'.Book InformationISBN... -
The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms by Peter Brooker 9780198778448
$61.18The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms situates literary modernisms and the modernist arts in a series of unfolding relations with mass society and popular culture in both national and transnational settings. An unparalleled resource containing over fifty... -
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway by Michael Whitworth 9780230506428
$38.91Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) has long been recognised as one of her outstanding achievements and one of the canonical works of modernist fiction. Each generation of readers has found something new within its pages, which is reflected in its... -
White Mythologies by Robert J. C. Young 9780415311816
RRP: $36.11$31.32In 1990, Robert Young's White Mythologies set out to question the very concepts of history and the West. Is it possible, he asked, to write history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism? Is history simply a Western myth? His reflections on these topics... -
Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives by Maria Tatar
RRP: $38.70$30.52The tale of Bluebeard's Wife--the story of a young woman who discovers that her mysterious blue-bearded husband has murdered his former spouses--no longer squares with what most parents consider good bedtime reading for their children. But the story has... -
Asking Around: Background to the David Hare Trilogy by David Hare 9780571170630
RRP: $19.34$14.93David Hare's trilogy of plays - Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War - first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993, examines the crises facing three great British institutions - the Church, the Law and the Labour Party. In... -
Intratextual Baudelaire: The Sequential Fabric of the Fleurs Du Mal and Spleen de Paris by Randolph Paul Runyon 9780814256824
$42.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256824Author Randolph Paul RunyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Life of Goethe: A Critical Biography John R. Williams (University of St. Andrews) 9780631231738
RRP: $57.99$51.03Goethe established a major European reputation and profoundly influenced his contemporaries and literary successors, not least among them the British Romantic writers Coleridge, Scott, and Byron. Offers a comprehensive one-volume study of a major... -
The Gender of Modernity by Rita Felski 9780674341944
RRP: $45.09$36.64In an innovative and invigorating exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Rita Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity. She also calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either... -
Brecht on Art and Politics by Bertolt Brecht 9780413773531
$25.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413773531Author Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC -
Divagations by Stephane Mallarme 9780674032408
RRP: $43.80$43.37"This is a book just the way I don't like them," the father of French Symbolism, Stephane Mallarme, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: "scattered and with no architecture." On the heels of this caveat, Mallarme's diverting, discursive, and... -
The Tempest by Virginia Vaughan 9780719073137
RRP: $38.70$34.42The Tempest, the last play Shakespeare wrote without a collaborator and the first included in the 1623 First Folio, occupies a unique place in cultural history. Probably no play of Shakespeare's has been so subject to appropriations and adaptations, many... -
Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus by Jonathan A. Allan
$28.39'A serious work of theory.' The Guardian 'Jonathan Allan has come up with a whole theory of the arsehole.' Dazed and Confused In a resolute deviation from the governing totality of the phallus, Reading from Behind offers a radical reorientation... -
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love by Anne Fadiman
RRP: $16.76$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530549Author Anne FadimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Bourgeois by Franco Moretti
RRP: $16.76$14.20"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member... -
Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood 9780226349527
RRP: $34.83$34.66Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone... -
Roland Barthes by Graham Allen
RRP: $25.79$22.82Roland Barthes is a central figure in the study of language, literature, culture and the media. This book prepares readers for their first encounter with his crucial writings on some of the most important theoretical debates, including:*existentialism... -
The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition by Gaius Valerius Catullus 9780520242647
RRP: $49.02$39.23Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including... -
Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism by Nicholas Brown 9781478001591
RRP: $27.08$23.70In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how... -
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980-2018 by Peter Boxall 9781108704922
RRP: $30.95$26.70From 1980 to the present, huge transformations have occurred in every area of British cultural life. The election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 ushered in a new neoliberal era in politics and economics that dramatically reshaped the British landscape... -
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
RRP: $51.60$37.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Triangle Awards (Gay Nonfiction) 2013. Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Nonfiction) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780446563130Author Christopher BramFormat... -
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays by Peter Lake
RRP: $35.48$30.82A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies,... -
Stories and Society: Children's Literature in its Social Context by Dennis Butts 9780333522479
RRP: $58.04$57.55Children's literature is increasingly exposed to critical debate in England and America. There are indeed a number of histories and surveys of children's literature, but few works exist which discuss the contexts, ideologies and narrative structures of... -
Swimming Pool by Dr. Piotr Florczyk 9781501394874
RRP: $12.89$10.02Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Florczyk... -
A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien Stuart D. Lee (University of Oxford) 9781119656029
RRP: $47.67$43.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119656029Author Stuart D LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher Wiley-Blackwell -
Gender and the Victorian Periodical by Hilary Fraser 9780521054577
RRP: $42.56$36.61Periodicals in the Victorian era portrayed and reinforced gender notions and ideals. Indeed, the Victorian periodical press was a critical cultural site for the representation of competing gender ideologies. This is a full-length book examining... -
Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez Franco Moretti 9781859840696
$24.56"Take Faust, what is it? A 'tragedy', as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. How about Moby-Dick? Encyclopedia, novel or romance? Or even a 'singular medley,' as one anonymous 1851 review put it? ... -
Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender by Jerilyn Fisher 9780313313462
$107.24With the literary canon consisting mostly of works created by and about men, the central perspective is decidedly male. This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to... -
Holmes & Watson by S. C. Roberts 9780712352161
RRP: $12.90$5.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorS.C. Roberts (1887-1966) was a publisher, university administrator, noted Sherlockian, and first president of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. He served as... -
Ecclesiastical History: v. 2: Bks.VI-X by Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius
RRP: $32.19$30.65The first comprehensive history of early Christianity.Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. AD 260-340), born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus, whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's persecution. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt,... -
Buzzworthy: Cocktails Inspired by Female Literary Greats by Jennifer Croll
RRP: $19.34$14.13The author of Free the Tipple is back with another collection of delectable cocktails-this time a literary mix inspired by the world's most iconic women writers. The fifty recipes in this volume are as unconventional, imaginative, and refreshing as... -
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman by F. O. Matthiessen 9780195007596
RRP: $67.08$47.20Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works.Book InformationISBN 9780195007596Author F. O. MatthiessenFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Oxford... -
The Theatre of Martin Crimp: Second Edition by Aleks Sierz
$38.60First published in 2006, Alek's Sierz's The Theatre of Martin Crimp provided a groundbreaking study of one of British theatre's leading contemporary playwrights. Combining Sierz's lucid prose and sharp analysis together with interviews with Martin Crimp... -
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: $14.18$9.73Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honeymoon. Bored by her aspiring academic husband, she foresees a life of tedious convention. And so, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante, Judge Brack, she begins to manipulate the fates of those... -
The International Companion to James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian by Dafydd Moore
RRP: $32.19$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980199Author Dafydd MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Horace Satires: A Selection by John Godwin
$20.28This 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,... -
How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Philip Womack
$18.41'Immensely informative, wrapped in an engagingly casual tone, complemented by more than a dash of the bizarre. You'd be barking to miss it.' Professor Michael Scott Can you tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus? In this unique introduction, Philip...