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Samuel Johnson: Writer by Neil Curry 9781910996492
RRP: $18.05$16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996492Author Neil CurryFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
On Empson by Michael Wood 9780691163765
RRP: $25.80$20.81From one of today's most distinguished critics, a beautifully written exploration of one of the twentieth century's most important literary critics Are literary critics writers? As Michael Wood says, "Not all critics are writers--perhaps most of them... -
Anna Karenina: A Norton Critical Edition by Leo Tolstoy 9780393966428
$20.16"Backgrounds and Sources" includes central passages from the letters of Tolstoy and his correspondents, S. A. Tolstoy's diaries, and contemporary accounts translated by George Gibian exclusively for this Norton Critical Edition. Together these materials... -
No Other Book by R. Jarrell 9780060956387
$16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060956387Author R. JarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Poetics by Aristotle 9781420974720
$8.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420974720Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm -
Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader by Rosalind Minsky 9780415092210
RRP: $56.75$49.59What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? In Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader Rosalind Minsky answers these questions and... -
So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron by Susie Thomas 9781910170618
RRP: $16.76$14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170618Author Susie ThomasFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Interference by Miss Morna Pearson
RRP: $15.47$15.42Can you ever really trust a machine? It is the near future. A couple are struggling to conceive, but fortunately their company has the perfect solution. A woman waits in a VR metaverse to do homework with her young daughter. In a care home... -
Recovering the Lost Art of Reading: A Quest for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful by Leland Ryken
RRP: $20.63$14.98In today's technology-driven culture, reading has become a lost art. Recovering the Lost Art of Reading explores the importance of reading generally and of studying the Bible as literature, while giving practical suggestions on how to read well.About the... -
On Narrative by W. J. T. Mitchell 9780226532172
RRP: $21.29$20.94The fourteen distinguished contributors to this volume explore ways we tell, understand, and use stories. More important, through their exploration they collectively demonstrate that the study of narrative, like the study of other significant human... -
Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Bucknell University) 9780631201373
RRP: $47.67$42.26Emmanuel Eze collects into one convenient and controversial volume the most important and influential writings on race that the European Enlightenment produced.About the AuthorEmmanuel Chukwudi Eze teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Bucknell... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel by Peter Bondanella 9780521669627
RRP: $33.53$28.37The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the... -
An Essay on the Tragic by Peter Szondi
RRP: $24.50$21.57Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. The first of the books two parts consists of a series of commentaries on... -
The Art of Dramaturgy by Anne Cattaneo
RRP: $48.38$46.74An introduction to the mysterious theater role of a dramaturg by a legend in the field"This book is marvelous. . . . Fascinating. . . . An absolute joy to read."-Gil Roth, Virtual Memories podcast Anne Cattaneo was among the first Americans to fill the... -
An Analysis of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion John Donaldson 9781912128952
RRP: $8.39$8.01David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of the critical thinking skills of reasoning and evaluation. Hume's subject, the question of the existence and possible nature of God, was, and... -
The Writings of Margaret of Oingt - Medieval Prioress and Mystic by Margaret of Oingt 9780859914420
RRP: $25.79$23.08Margaret of Oingt was born around 1240 into a noble family in the French Beaujolais region, and became prioress of the Carthusian charterhouse of Poletains; visionary and mystic, her writings are intelligent and humorous. Included here are the Page of... -
Preromanticism by Marshall Brown
RRP: $64.50$56.51A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This is a major achievement, an artfully written and carefully articulated contribution to the theory of literary history, and a powerful interpretation of eighteenth-century literature with which all scholars... -
Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse by Bella Millett 9780198119975
RRP: $92.88$84.53The Ancrene Wisse, a guide for female recluses written in the West Midlands in the early thirteenth century, and the closely related religious works of the `Katherine Group', offer a vivid insight into the religious life of the time, and their rich and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison by Justine Tally 9780521678322
RRP: $29.66$25.23Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion... -
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree by Gerard Genette
RRP: $64.50$56.95By definition, a palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible." Palimpsests (originally published in France in 1982), one of Gerard... -
Scepticism and Belief in English Witchcraft Drama, 1538-1681 by Eric Pudney
RRP: $32.25$23.63Winner of the 2019 Warburg Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for an outstanding work of literary historyThis is a study of the representation of witches in early modern English drama, organised around the themes of... -
American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen by Gavin Cologne-Brookes 9780807178591
$41.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807178591Author Gavin Cologne-BrookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint LSU PressPublisher LSU PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism by Dr Evelyn Gajowski
$47.94The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical... -
Bright Moon, White Clouds by Li Po
RRP: $27.09$17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307465Author J. P. SeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
World Literature: A Reader by Theo D'Haen
RRP: $59.33$52.28World Literature is an increasingly influential subject in literary studies, which has led to the re-framing of contemporary ideas of 'national literatures', language and translation. World Literature: A Reader brings together thirty essential readings... -
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Autistic Adults by Adam Paul Valerius
RRP: $36.12$31.33Research related to transition and support needs for autistic adults remains limited. The purpose of this study was to understand the hopes, dreams, aspirations, challenges, and lived experiences of autistic adults. Academic literature has largely... -
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell 9780198858317
RRP: $12.89$9.44"Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success." Disgusted by society's materialism, Gordon Comstock leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet. In his race to the bottom,... -
Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry (LOA #18) by Stephen Crane 9780940450172
RRP: $45.15$40.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450172Author Stephen CraneFormat HardbackPage Count 1379Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
The Lyric Now by James Longenbach
RRP: $23.22$22.69For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound's make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever rehearsing their own present, inviting readers into a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe by Kevin J. Hayes
RRP: $29.66$25.23This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American... -
Seneca Epistulae Vol. I by Leighton Reynolds 9780198146445
$39.13Seneca Epistulae Vol. IBook InformationISBN 9780198146445Author Leighton ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 128mm * 22mm -
No One to Meet: Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan by Raphael Falco
$48.43The literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if baffling, outsider. That changed overnight when Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, challenging us to think of him as an integral part of our national and... -
Kim: A Norton Critical Edition by Rudyard Kipling 9780393966503
$25.17The text-that of the 1901 Sussex Edition-is fully annotated and accompanied by three maps that help students place the novel in geographical and historical contexts. "Backgrounds" explores the novel's complicated issues of multiculturalism, imperialism,... -
The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf by Anne E. Fernald 9780198885511
$61.91With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy... -
The Art Of Attention: A Poet's Eye by Donald Revell 9781555974749
RRP: $14.18$11.62Revell argues passionately for the transformation that imaginative experience elicits through poetry. The art of poetry is not about the acquisition of wiles or the deployment of strategies, it's about taking the information of the senses and... -
Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy by Marilyn Butler 9780521286565
RRP: $50.30$41.64Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to selections of non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. The series provides students, primarily though not exclusively those of English literature, with... -
A Companion to Ovid Peter E. Knox (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) 9781118451342
RRP: $50.25$44.97A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity. Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specializationIlluminates various aspects of... -
The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography Barbara K. Lewalski (Harvard University) 9781405106252
RRP: $54.12$48.30Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts. Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works... -
A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Elizabeth Spragins
RRP: $32.24$27.95No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies-rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields,... -
Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution by Professor Jon Mee 9780226828381
RRP: $36.12$35.33A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Working against the stubbornly persistent image of "dark satanic mills," in many ways so characteristic of literary...