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Selected Writings by Gertrude Stein 9780679724643
RRP: €32.13€19.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724643Author Gertrude SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 788gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
Tibullus Carmina by J. P. Postgate 9780198146377
€41.60The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the front of each page. There are... -
THE Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos by S. T. Joshi 9780978991180
€29.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978991180Author S. T. JoshiFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Mythos BooksPublisher Mythos BooksWeight(grams) 547gDimensions(mm) 140mm * 216mm * 22mm -
The Powers of Philology: DYNAMICS OF TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
RRP: €28.55€24.80Philology--the discovery, editing, and presentation of historical texts--was once a firmly established discipline that formed the core study for students across a wide range of linguistic and literary fields. Although philology departments are steadily... -
Jeremy Corbyn: Accidental Hero by W. Stephen Gilbert
RRP: €11.89€10.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908998972Author W. Stephen GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 206gDimensions(mm)... -
Writing a New Environmental Era: Moving forward to nature by Ken Hiltner
RRP: €45.21€39.72Writing a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature. Consequently, we need to stop thinking about going back... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama by Carolyn Williams 9781107095939
RRP: €54.74€23.76This newly commissioned series of essays by leading scholars is the first volume to offer both an overview of the field and also current emerging critical views on the history, form, and influence of English melodrama. Authoritative voices provide an... -
Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets by Elaine Scarry 9780374537234
RRP: €22.61€14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537234Author Elaine ScarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice
RRP: €23.74€15.60Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of... -
Surrealism and the Art of Crime by Jonathan P. Eburne
RRP: €46.41€41.08Corpses mark surrealism's path through the twentieth century, providing material evidence of the violence in modern life. Though the shifting group of poets, artists, and critics who made up the surrealist movement were witness to total war,... -
Lucretius: The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus by Titus Lucretius Carus
RRP: €14.27€13.02" . . . [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and proselytizing fervour.' -The Classical ReviewBook InformationISBN 9780253201256Author LucretiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Indiana University... -
A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism by Maggie Humm 9780745011943
RRP: €54.73€52.50This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates within each approach. Each chapter has an easy-to-use... -
Composing Modernist Connections in China and Europe by Chunjie Zhang
RRP: €47.59€41.72Global modernisms are marked by tremendous transformations in lifestyle, historical consciousness, cultural values, ethics, wars, and crises. This book emphasizes modernist connections within literature, culture, history, and media beyond the nation... -
Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies by Cristina Bacchilega
RRP: €28.55€24.80Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through which women are portrayed in four classic stories:... -
Kafka's Creatures: Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings by Marc Lucht 9780739143957
RRP: €53.55€46.99There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first... -
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity by Ardel Haefele-Thomas 9780708324653
RRP: €23.79€18.12Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From... -
The Longman Anthology of Gothic Verse by Caroline Franklin 9781405899314
RRP: €52.35€50.77Gothic verse liberated the dark side of Romantic and Victorian verse: its medievalism, melancholy and morbidity. Some poets intended merely to shock or entertain, but Gothic also liberated the creative imagination and inspired them to enter disturbing... -
The Paston Women: Selected Letters by Diane Watt
RRP: €23.79€20.19The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing. The Paston letters form one of only two surviving collections of fifteenth-century correspondence, in their case especially rich in letters from the... -
Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 by Franco Moretti
RRP: €24.98€24.92In this pioneering study Franco Moretti presents a fresh and exciting perspective by mapping the often unexpected relations between literature and geography.One hundred maps exposing the fascinating connections between literature and spaceAbout the... -
The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club by S. P. Rosenbaum 9781137360359
RRP: €33.31€30.52Shortly before his death, S. P. Rosenbaum began work on the history of the Bloomsbury Group's 'Memoir Club'. With original archival material and valuable insights on leading Bloomsbury figures such as Woolf, Keynes and Forster, this illuminating book... -
Critique of Pure Reason by Michael O'Sullivan
RRP: €7.74€7.27Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy - not to mention one of the most challenging. Its topic is the nature of human knowledge, and the question of whether or not it is possible to have... -
Genius in France: An Idea and Its Uses by Ann Jefferson 9780691160658
RRP: €47.60€38.00This engaging book spans three centuries to provide the first full account of the long and diverse history of genius in France. Exploring a wide range of examples from literature, philosophy, and history, as well as medicine, psychology, and journalism,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry by Mary Lewis Shaw 9780521004855
RRP: €27.36€23.28The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry is a comprehensive survey of French poetry. The poets discussed - all quoted in the original, followed by an English translation - belong to every period from the eleventh century to the present, and include... -
Forging Worlds: Stories Behind the Art of Blizzard Entertainment by Micky Neilson 9781789097542
RRP: €41.65€21.59For thirty years, Blizzard has been pushing boundaries and breaking expectations of what it means to draw for video games. Get a glimpse behind the curtain at how art has evolved at Blizzard and meet some of the artists who've shaped Blizzard's style and... -
After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century by Bashir Abu-Manneh
RRP: €27.36€22.30By the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic,... -
Contemporary British Poetry by David Wheatley 9780230362536
€31.45This Reader's Guide provides a timely critical overview that allows readers to orient themselves authoritatively in the rapidly-evolving field of contemporary British poetry. Focusing on key themes and issues, and a wide range of poets, the Guide... -
Posthumanism by Pramod K. Nayar
RRP: €19.03€17.15This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical... -
The Big Sea by Langston Hughes
€14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015498Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. -
The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €29.69€23.67An authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde's critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and novelist also transformed the art of commentary.Though he is primarily acclaimed today for his drama and fiction, Oscar Wilde was also one of the greatest... -
The Man Born to Be King – Wade Annotated Edition by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: €42.83€34.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514005330Author Dorothy L. SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 163mm *... -
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature by Joseph Ford 9781498581882
RRP: €41.65€36.83Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature examines how literature-and the way we read, classify, and critique literature-impacts our understanding of the world at a time of conflict. Using the bitterly-contested... -
Conversations with Edna O'Brien by Alice Hughes Kersnowski 9781496820150
RRP: €35.64€33.93Who's afraid of Edna O'Brien? asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O'Brien. With over fifty years of published novels, biographies, plays, telecasts, short stories, and more, it is hard not to be intimidated by her. An acclaimed and... -
Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914 by Patrick Brantlinger 9780801497674
RRP: €30.93€26.76A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have... -
Encyclopaedia of Girls' School Stories: Volume Three by Sue Sims
€19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847452689Author Sue SimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Girls Gone By PublishersPublisher Girls Gone By Publishers -
The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide by J. R. Ward
RRP: €13.08€9.26Prepare to enter the dark, passionate world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and get up close and personal with each of the Brothers. You'll find insider information on the Brotherhood and interviews with your favourite characters, including a... -
A Defense of Judgment by Michael W Clune
RRP: €28.56€27.41Teachers 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 Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley by Esther Schor
RRP: €30.93€26.17Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of... -
The International Companion to James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian by Dafydd Moore
RRP: €29.69€22.35Apologies 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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre by Richard Dutton 9780199697861
€56.41There was no single 'Elizabethan stage'. Early modern actors exploited various opportunities for patronage and profit between the 1570s and 1642, whether touring, or performing at inns, in country houses, in purpose-built theatres, at court, at the... -
The Literature of Ancient Sumer by Professor Jeremy Black 9780199296330
RRP: €76.16€67.90This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in the language, from narrative myths and lyrical hymns to proverbs and love...