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An Analysis of Michel Foucault's What is an Author? Tim Smith-Laing 9781912453085
RRP: $8.39$8.01Michel Foucault's 1969 essay "What is an Author?" sidesteps the stormy arguments surrounding "intentional fallacy" and the "death of the author," offering an entirely different way of looking at texts. Foucault points out that all texts are written but... -
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 2 by Malcolm Lyons
RRP: $25.80$20.07Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love,... -
An Oxfordshire Christmas by David Green 9780752453132
RRP: $12.89$10.02This 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,... -
James Joyce and Trieste by Peter Hartshorn 9780313302527
$106.52Much attention has been given to Joyce's life in Dublin and Paris, but his productive years in Trieste have not received the same attention. In a thoroughly documented account, Hartshorn presents a clear, accessible study of Joyce's love/hate... -
Key Concepts in the Gothic William Hughes 9781474405539
RRP: $23.21$19.18An essential quick-reference book for students of Gothic literature, theatre and literary theory'Key Concepts in the Gothic' provides a one-stop resource which details and defines, in accessible language, those contexts essential for the study of the... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry by Peter Howarth
RRP: $29.66$25.23Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why... -
The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel by April London
RRP: $29.66$18.42In the eighteenth century, the novel became established as a popular literary form all over Europe. Britain proved an especially fertile ground, with Defoe, Fielding, Richardson and Burney as early exponents of the novel form. The Cambridge Introduction... -
The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $32.19$26.06An 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... -
Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature by Jessica Wolfe 9780521123761
RRP: $51.59$42.91This book explores how machinery and the practice of mechanics participate in the intellectual culture of Renaissance humanism. Before the emergence of the concept of technology, sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century writers recognised the... -
Anne of Green Gables: The Original Manuscript by Lucy Maud Montgomery 9781771087216
RRP: $31.77$27.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771087216Author Lucy Maud MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams)... -
Mastering Poetry by Sara Thorne
$44.32Mastering Poetry is a practical book with wide-ranging examples, detailed commentaries and frameworks for analysis. Whether you are studying or reading poetry for pleasure, it will help you to move beyond your first response to an analytical... -
Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary by John Gordon 9780815623960
$25.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815623960Author John GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University PressWeight(grams)... -
Book of Rhymes by Adam Bradley 9780465094400
$16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465094400Author Adam BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)... -
Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
RRP: $11.61$10.58Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future? The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events, but imagining how looming disasters will coincide is simultaneously necessary and impossible... -
Othello by Lois Potter 9780719027260
RRP: $25.79$23.35Of all Shakespeare's tragedies, Othello, with its issues of racism, jealousy and sexual stereotyping seems most immediate to contemporary audiences. Traces Othello's acting tradition as it has affected the roles of Othello, Desdemona and Iago -... -
Hamlet: The State of Play by Professor Sonia Massai
$41.34This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play. Hamlet has often served as a testing ground for innovative readings and new approaches. Its unique textual history - surviving... -
Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment by David Crystal 9781108466691
RRP: $23.21$20.02How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? For three days, Shakespeare's Globe presented a production of Romeo and Juliet in original, Shakespearian... -
Tone by Sofia Samatar 9780231211215
RRP: $21.92$17.61Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of "I know... -
Disaster Mon Amour by David Thomson
RRP: $21.92$18.85A deep-and darkly comic-dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world "In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to make disaster and catastrophe our best friends-how we... -
Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature by Warren F. Motte, Jr. 9781564781871
RRP: $19.34$16.63A remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Founded in... -
Cervantes' "Don Quixote" by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
RRP: $25.79$25.01The novel Don Quixote, written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deeply... -
Croxton Play of the Sacrament by John T. Sebastian
RRP: $22.58$18.71The Croxton Play of the Sacrament, which survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work of a... -
The Novel and The Police by D. A. Miller
RRP: $34.83$31.11Through a series of readings in the work of the decisive triumvirate of Victorian fiction, Dickens, Trollope and Wilkie Collins, Miller investigates the novel as an oblique form of social control.About the AuthorD.A. Miller is Professor of English at the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley by Esther Schor
RRP: $33.53$28.37Known 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 Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 9780393963328
$18.94The text of The Mill on the Floss, that of the 1862 third edition for which Eliot made her last revisions, has been annotated in order to assist the reader with obscure references and allusions. "Backgrounds" includes fifteen letters from the 1859-69... -
Poetic World of Emily Bronte: Poems from the Author of Wuthering Heights by Laura Inman
RRP: $30.90$27.80Emily Bronte is known as a novelist, but she was first and equally a poet. Before during and after writing Wuthering Heights, she wrote poetry. Indeed, she wrote virtually nothing else for us to read -- no other work of fiction or correspondence. Her... -
Coffee by Dinah Lenney
RRP: $12.89$10.02Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves... -
Confessions of a Young Novelist by Umberto Eco 9780674058699
RRP: $46.38$39.86Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions," the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and... -
Aeschylus' Agamemnon: A Dual Language Edition by Aeschylus 9781940997841
RRP: $12.84$11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997841Author Ian JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)... -
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett 9780393936711
$25.57The text, based on the first edition, is accompanied by explanatory footnotes. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes selections from Smollett's early poetry as well as non-fiction writing. "Criticism" presents the most important reviews of the book... -
The Sniper Encyclopaedia: An A-Z Guide to World Sniping John Walter 9781784382407
RRP: $32.25$24.02The Sniper Encyclopaedia is an indispensable alphabetical, topic-by-topic guide to a fascinating subject. It is intended as a companion volume to John Walter's Snipers at War (Greenhill Books, 2017) and is another addition to the Greenhill Sniper... -
The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Nicola J. Watson
RRP: $52.23$39.65The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been... -
A Study Guide for Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375396332
RRP: $12.84$11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375396332Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)... -
Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 9780811200035
RRP: $19.34$16.81When Guillaume Apollinaire died in 1918 at the age of thirty-eight, as the result of a war wound, he was already known as one of the most original and important poets of his time. He had led the migration of Bohemian Paris across the city from Montmartre... -
Angry in Piraeus by Maureen Freely 9781909631137
RRP: $18.06$12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631137Author Maureen FreelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions -
The Literature of Terror: Volume 2: The Modern Gothic by David Punter 9780582290556
$85.50The Literature of Terror: the Modern Gothic is the second volume in David Punter's impressive survey of gothic writing covering over two centuries. This long awaited second edition has been expanded to take into account the latest critical research, and... -
Postcolonial Literature by Dave Gunning
RRP: $30.95$28.19This Guide addresses the key concerns of postcolonial literary criticism in the twenty-first century. The focus is on the development of effective comparative readings of postcolonial writing drawn from a wide range of locations. Examples of literature... -
The Pardoner's Tale: York Notes Advanced by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: $10.31$8.06Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical... -
Caran An-t-saoghail (The Wiles of the World): An Anthology of Nineteenth-century Gaelic Verse by Donald E. Meek
RRP: $32.25$22.34The Highlands and Islands of Scotland experienced massive changes during the nineteenth century. Economic restructuring, introducing sheep and deer and encouraging clearance and eviction, is the best known change, but it was by no means the only one. ... -
In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing by Chris Baldick 9780198122494
RRP: $63.84$60.85This book surveys the early history of one of our most important modern myths: the story of Frankenstein and the monster he created from dismembered corpses, as it appeared in fictional and other writings before its translation to the cinema screen. It...