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The Practice of Writing by David Lodge
RRP: £12.99£9.09In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls the... -
The Novel, Who Needs It? by Joseph Epstein 9781641773058
RRP: £18.99£12.93In this brief but highly engaging book Joseph Epstein argues for the primacy of fiction, and specifically of the novel, among all intellectual endeavors that seek to describe the behavior of human beings. Reading superior fiction, he holds, arouses the... -
Virgil: Eclogues by Virgil 9780198150350
RRP: £35.49£28.50Surprising though it may seem, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary in English on Virgil's Eclogues. Written between about 42 and 35 BC, these ten short pastorals are among the best known poems in Latin literature. They have inspired... -
Obscenity & The Arts by Anthony Burgess 9780993037863
RRP: £10.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993037863Author Anthony BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Pariah PressPublisher Pariah Press -
Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson by Richard S. Peterson
RRP: £130.00£112.51In the first edition of this now-classic text, Richard Peterson offered an important revaluation of the poetry of Ben Jonson and a new appreciation of the way in which the classical doctrine of imitation-the creative use of the thoughts and words of... -
Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing by Nicholas Thoburn
RRP: £23.99£20.84No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms "a communism of textual matter," Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and... -
Shakespeare in Cambridge: A Celebration of the Shakespeare Festival by Andrew Muir
RRP: £12.99£8.48Opening with a look at a Cambridge play satirising Shakespeare in his own time, we follow Cambridge's part in Shakespeare appreciation through the centuries. Against this background the book celebrates the annual open-air Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. ... -
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature by W. Michelle Wang 9780367619053
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field... -
The Golden Age of Spanish Drama by Gary Racz 9780393923629
RRP: £14.99£13.43From the late sixteenth century and well into the seventeenth, Spain produced one of the most vibrant and popular dramatic canons in the history of theatre, known as the Comedia. Collected, translated and edited by the pre-eminent scholars in the field... -
The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess by Peter Brooks 9780300065534
RRP: £24.00£23.03In this lucid and fascinating book, Peter Brooks argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the nineteenth century, he moves on to Balzac and Henry James to... -
Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters by Zhaoming Qian 9780199238606
RRP: £52.00£51.83No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential... -
J. K. Rowling: A Biography by Connie Ann Kirk 9780313322051
£41.69The unprecedented popularity of the Harry Potter books took the publishing world by storm and captured the imaginations of readers around the world. This unofficial biographical study of J. K. Rowling invites fans and critics alike to take a close look... -
The Philip Larkin I Knew by Maeve Brennan 9780719062766
RRP: £19.99£17.82The Philip Larkin I Knew traces the author's close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University of Hull, taking in his literary achievements from "The Less Deceived" (1955), through "The Whitsun... -
The Maid'S Tragedy: Beaumont and Fletcher by T. W. Craik 9780719030987
RRP: £14.99£13.64Generally acknowledged to be the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays and frequently performed by the best actors of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, The Maid's Tragedy (1610-11) disappeared from the stage (except in a much-altered... -
The Living Are Few, The Dead Many: Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn by Hans Henny Jahnn 9781900565592
RRP: £12.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565592Author Hans Henny JahnnFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 216g -
The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wei. Volume 1 by Christopher Nugent 9781501516009
£40.73Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his... -
Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton by Emily R. Wilson 9780801879647
RRP: £48.00£45.99In Paradise Lost, Adam asks, "Why do I overlive?" Adam's anguished question is the basis for a critical analysis of living too long as a neglected but central theme in Western tragic literature. Emily Wilson examines this experience in works by Milton... -
Chaucer's Dream Poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780582040113
RRP: £49.99£47.84Dream literature is regarded as one of the most important genres in medieval literature and is widely studied. This text provides a succinct and clear introduction to the five central poems that comprise Chaucer's Dream Poetry, and shows his role as a... -
Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers: A Norton Anthology by Elizabeth D. Samet
£32.01A new Norton Anthology illuminates how literature can build character and foster critical-thinking skills for future leaders in business, law, politics, medicine, and beyond.About the AuthorElizabeth D. Samet received her BA from Harvard and her PhD in... -
The Lyric Theory Reader: A Critical Anthology by Virginia Jackson 9781421412009
RRP: £45.50£41.26The Lyric Theory Reader collects major essays on the modern idea of lyric, made available here for the first time in one place. Representing a wide range of perspectives in Anglo-American literary criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,... -
The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity by Jonathan Freedman
RRP: £27.00£26.47As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and... -
Letters from Wales: Memories and Encounters in Literature and Life by Sam Adams
RRP: £20.00£14.29Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters... -
Early Modern English Literature by Jason Scott-Warren 9780745627526
RRP: £22.99£22.85When we engage with the writings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, we encounter a culture radically unfamiliar to us at the start of the twenty-first century. The past is a foreign country, and so too are many of its texts. This readable and... -
A Preface to Paradise Lost by C. S. Lewis
£53.11A Preface to Paradise Lost provides an interpretation of Milton's purpose in writing the epic.ReviewsAn essential work in understanding both the literary approach of C.S. Lewis and the theological assumptions of Paradise Lost. Unparalleled in its... -
Greek Grammar by Herbert Weir Smyth 9780674362505
RRP: £66.95£53.94Sponsored by the Department of Classics of Harvard University, a revised edition of the late Professor Smyth's A Greek Grammar for Colleges is now available. All necessary corrections have been made, and the book retains the form which has long made it... -
Blood Brothers GCSE Student Guide by Ros Merkin
RRP: £10.99£9.01Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tips for successful understanding and writing all in one place, preparing students to approach their exams... -
On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
RRP: £15.99£14.24The greatest and most enduring of the prophets of the Victorian era, Thomas Carlyle was prescient about the importance of heroism in defining a nation's ambition and character. First published in 1841, his On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in... -
The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World by Pierre Vidal-Naquet
RRP: £26.50£23.29"No one can fail to admire the brilliance of the connections Vidal-Naquet suggests ...Audacity has been characteristic of Vidal-Naquet's career from the start; it marked his activities as a historian engage in the political struggle; it is visible at... -
The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen by Mark Valentine 9781614982456
RRP: £25.00£22.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982456Author Mark ValentineFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 549g -
Approaching the Hunger Games Trilogy: A Literary and Cultural Analysis by Tom Henthorne 9780786468645
RRP: £21.99£17.97This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better understand both its significance and its appeal. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the trilogy, drawing from literary studies,... -
Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" by Gina Wisker 9780826426017
RRP: £21.99£21.89This is an up-to-date readers guide to Atwood's contemporary classic covering contexts, themes and criticism. Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel "A Handmaid's Tale", engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power,... -
Finding Shakespeare's New Place: An Archaeological Biography by Kevin Colls
RRP: £19.99£14.28This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare's life in relation to his lost family home, New Place. The findings of a major archaeological excavation encourage us to think again about what New Place meant to... -
Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres by Lawrence Danson 9780198711728
£29.18Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original... -
Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis by Jamieson Webster 9780231184090
RRP: £22.00£17.36Conversion disorder-a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestations-offers a way to rethink the present. With so many people suffering from unexplained bodily symptoms; with so many seeking recourse... -
American Fiction 1865 - 1940 by Brian Lee 9780582493162
£46.38Brian Lee's study of American fiction from 1865 to 1940 draws on a wealth of material by, amongst others, Twain, James, Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner. Though the works of these writers have been closely scrutinised by postwar critics in... -
The Beginnings of Medieval Romance: Fact and Fiction, 1150-1220 by D. H. Green 9780521049566
RRP: £36.99£31.31Up 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: £12.99£11.85"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... -
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
RRP: £30.00£23.29How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial miningThe 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller... -
Conversations with Octavia Butler by Conseula Francis 9781604732764
RRP: £29.95£27.25Octavia Butler (1947-2006) spent the majority of her prolific career as the only major black female author of science fiction. Winner of both the Nebula and Hugo Awards as well as a MacArthur ""genius"" grant, the first for a science fiction writer,... -
Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Rebecca T. Alpert
RRP: £28.00£21.80This text explores what it is like to be part of both the lesbian and Jewish communities, suggesting ways in which lesbians can reconcile these seemingly discordant elements of their identity. It advocates the acceptance of lesbians into the Jewish...