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States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic by Professor Alice Kaplan
RRP: £16.00£13.84States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel The Plague as a palimpsest of our own pandemic life, its account of the psychology and politics of quarantine uncannily relevant to our time. One of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert... -
Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels) by Sparknotes
RRP: £10.99£7.78NOW IN COLOR! Read Hamlet in graphic-novel form-with NO FEAR! Based on the No Fear Shakespeare modern translations, this dynamic graphic novel-now with fully-colored illustrations-brings Hamlet's agony and revenge to life. The illustrations are... -
In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 22 by Patora Fuyuhara
RRP: £10.99£8.43The Visions Dancing in My Mind... Touya's honeymoon might be over, but love's still lingering in the air in Brunhild! Can poor Endymion cope with being part of an alien menage a quatre? Who else might be looking for a match made in heaven? Having... -
George Orwell's Perverse Humanity: Socialism and Free Speech by Glenn Burgess
RRP: £21.99£18.10This is the first book to focus primarily on George Orwell's ideas about free speech and related matters - freedom of the press, the writer's freedom of expression, honesty and truthfulness - and, in particular, the ways in which they are linked to his... -
Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945 by Daniel G. Williams 9780708319871
RRP: £14.99£11.66Williams analyses and compares the ways in which African Americans and the Welsh have defined themselves as minorities within larger nation states (the UK and US). The study is grounded in examples of actual friendships and cultural exchanges between... -
Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction by Scott McCracken
RRP: £14.99£11.12Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the best seller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. It combines a lucid and accessible account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction with... -
The Lost Steps by Andre Breton
RRP: £15.99£14.24The Lost Steps (Les Pas perdus) is Andre Breton's first collection of critical and polemical essays. Composed between 1917 and 1923, these pieces trace his evolution during the years when he was emerging as a central figure in French (and European)... -
Introduction to Twentieth Century Italian Literature: A Difficult Modernity by Robert Gordon 9780715634370
£25.45Short 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... -
Sex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity by Joseph Gamble 9781512824605
RRP: £45.00£39.18In Sex Lives, Joseph Gamble draws from literature, art, and personal testimonies from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe to uncover how early moderns learned to have sex. In the early modern period, Gamble contends, everyone from pornographers to... -
Angela of Foligno`s Memorial by Cristina Mazzoni 9780859915625
RRP: £19.99£15.94Angela of Foligno is considered by many as the greatest mystical voice among Italian medieval women. She devoted herself to a relentless pursuit of God when as a middle-aged woman she lost her mother, husband and children; illiterate herself, she... -
The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms by Peter Brooker 9780198778448
£47.43The 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... -
Music, Words and Voice: A Reader by Martin Clayton 9780719077883
RRP: £19.99£17.82Music, Words and Voice: A Reader is a new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. It is the first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationships between words and... -
The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues by Ellen Greene
RRP: £16.95£13.85The world has long wished for more of Sappho's poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in 2004 of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the fourth to have survived almost complete, has generated unprecedented... -
Modernism/Postmodernism by Peter Brooker 9780582063570
RRP: £47.99£45.98The concepts of 'Modernism' and 'Postmodernism' constitute the single most dominant issue of twentieth-century literature and culture and are the cause of much debate. In this influential volume, Peter Brooker presents some of the key viewpoints from a... -
The Tempest by Virginia Vaughan 9780719073137
RRP: £30.00£26.68The 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... -
Othello: Critical Essays by Philip C. Kolin
RRP: £45.99£40.13Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. Othello:Critical Essays explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more.About the AuthorPhilip... -
i: six nonlectures by E. E. Cummings 9780674440104
RRP: £26.95£22.20The author begins his "nonlectures" with the warning "I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer." Then, at intervals, he proceeds to deliver the following:1. i & my parents2. i & their son3. i & selfdiscovery4. i & you & is5. i & now &... -
Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film by Hande Gurses
RRP: £39.99£35.06The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape. Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film, will be the first major study to offer fresh theoretical insight into... -
World Literature: A Reader by Theo D'Haen
RRP: £45.99£40.53World 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... -
Zeina by Nawal El Saadawi 9780863563553
RRP: £8.99£6.20Distinguished literary critic Bodour is trapped in a loveless marriage and carries with her a dark secret. She fell in love in her youth and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Zeina, whom she abandoned on the streets of Cairo. Bodour doesn't know... -
Cavafy's Alexandria: Expanded Edition by Edmund Keeley 9780691044989
RRP: £45.00£35.32C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first... -
Romiosini by Yiannis Ritsos 9780992740900
RRP: £8.95£6.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992740900Author Yiannis RitsosFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
Lyrical Ballads by Michael Mason 9781405840606
RRP: £39.99£38.54Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a unique work of literature. first published in 1798, it marked a radical change in the direction of English Literature. Lyrical Ballads represented a movement away from the... -
This Will Not Be Generative by Dixa Ramírez-D'Oleo 9781009320320
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Will Not Be Generative attends to the semiotics of ecological writings via Caribbean literary studies and black critical theory. Closely reading texts by Donna Haraway, Monique Allewaert, and Lisa Wells, it exposes how the language of tentacles and... -
The Moralized Ovid by Pierre Bersuire 9780674290846
RRP: £29.95£23.66An influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid's stories, translated into English for the first time.Written in about 1340 in Avignon by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The... -
Gender and the Victorian Periodical by Hilary Fraser 9780521054577
RRP: £32.99£28.38Periodicals 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... -
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck
£6.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449208397Author Erma BombeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 109mm *... -
Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender by Jerilyn Fisher 9780313313462
£83.13With 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... -
Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self by Dustin Friedman
RRP: £30.50£27.37A reimagining of how the aesthetic movement of the Victorian era ushered in modern queer theory.Late Victorian aesthetes were dedicated to the belief that an artwork's value derived solely from its beauty, rather than any moral or utilitarian purpose... -
Allegories of the Anthropocene by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature... -
Viral Shakespeare: Performance in the Time of Pandemic by Pascale Aebischer
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. The first section of the Element explores how Shakespeare 'went viral' during the first lockdown of 2020 and considers... -
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman by F. O. Matthiessen 9780195007596
RRP: £52.00£36.59Studies 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... -
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £10.99£7.32Hedda 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 Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: £39.99£35.06Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice in this unique book. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection of interviews and discussions in which... -
Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology by Andrew Hadfield 9780198871552
RRP: £105.00£98.58A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the... -
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Michael J. Davey
RRP: £19.99£17.69No book is more central to the study of nineteenth-century American literature than Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or The Whale. First published it 1851, it still speaks powerfully to readers today. Combining reprinted documents with clear introductions... -
The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet by Albert Gelpi 9780521424011
RRP: £36.99£28.38The Tenth Muse was enormously well-received when first published by Harvard University Press in 1975, and has been deemed a classic work. It was out of print for several years and then re- issued by Cambrirdge in this 1992 edition. In it Albert Gelpi... -
The Tragedies of Sophocles by James Morwood 9781904675723
£23.54This book provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles' seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. It sets these between an essay that outlines modern approaches to Greek tragedy... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry by Peter Howarth
RRP: £22.99£19.56Modernist 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... -
Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature by Jessica Wolfe 9780521123761
RRP: £39.99£33.26This 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...