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Anne of Green Gables: The Original Manuscript by Lucy Maud Montgomery 9781771087216
RRP: €29.31€25.56Apologies 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)... -
The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne by Thomas Keymer
RRP: €32.12€27.13Best known today for the innovative satire and experimental narrative of Tristram Shandy (1759-67), Laurence Sterne was no less famous in his time for A Sentimental Journey (1768) and for his controversial sermons. Sterne spent much of his life as an... -
Temporalities by Russell West-Pavlov
RRP: €23.79€21.05Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and... -
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic by Professor Claudia Baracchi
RRP: €23.79€20.87"Baracchi has identified pivotal points around which the Republic operates; this allows a reading of the entire text to unfold.... a very beautifully written book." -Walter Brogan"... a work that opens new and timely vistas within the Republic.... Her... -
The Radical Aesthetic by Isobel Armstrong 9780631220534
RRP: €43.97€38.69This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake aesthetic discourse.About the... -
Book of Rhymes by Adam Bradley 9780465094400
€14.86Apologies 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)... -
The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech by Avital Ronell
RRP: €46.41€41.08The telephone marks the place of an absence. Affiliated with discontinuity, alarm, and silence, it raises fundamental questions about the constitution of self and other, the stability of location, systems of transfer, and the destination of speech... -
Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
RRP: €10.71€9.50Can 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... -
Ancient Greek Religion: A Sourcebook by Emily Kearns
RRP: €40.40€36.15Ancient Greek Religion: Historical Sources in Translation presents a wide range of documents relating to the religious world of the ancient Greeks from the earliest surviving literature to around the end of the fourth century BCE. Presents a wide range... -
: The Poetry of Alexander Pope (1955): Laureate of Peace by G. Wilson Knight
RRP: €39.26€34.70First published in 1955, this exegesis on the writings of Alexander Pope reveals the technical felicities of his poetry, and is the first to be devoted to the great meaning inherent in his work. One section, which has appeared before and did much to... -
The Literary Theory Handbook by Gregory Castle
RRP: €30.88€27.37The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories. A new edition of this... -
Tone by Sofia Samatar 9780231211215
RRP: €20.22€16.24Tone 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... -
Angry in Piraeus by Maureen Freely 9781909631137
RRP: €16.66€10.95Apologies 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 -
Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature by Warren F. Motte, Jr. 9781564781871
RRP: €17.84€14.92A 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: €23.79€23.07The 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... -
The Novel and The Police by D. A. Miller
RRP: €32.13€28.70Through 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 Narrative Reader by Martin McQuillan
RRP: €47.59€42.20The Narrative Reader aims to provide a comprehensive survey of narrative theories ranging from Plato to Post-Structuralism. The selection of texts is bold and broad, demonstrating the extent to which narrative permeates the entire field of literature and... -
Clearing the Ground: C P Cavafy, Poetry & Prose, 1902-1911 by C. P. Cavafy 9781942281009
RRP: €21.41€13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942281009Author C P CavafyFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint LaertesPublisher LaertesWeight(grams) 276g -
Postcolonialism Revisited: Writing Wales in English by Kirsti Bohata 9780708318928
RRP: €11.89€9.02Postcolonialism Revisited is a ground-breaking book, the first to explore and analyse Anglophone Welsh writing, both literary and otherwise, in the context of contemporary thinking about colonial and post-colonial cultures. Kirsti Bohata considers how... -
The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature by Sheila M. Kidd
RRP: €29.69€24.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980359Author Sheila M. KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities by Stephen Siperstein
RRP: €45.21€39.72Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue. This important book highlights how humanities disciplines can mobilize the creative and critical power of students, teachers, and communities to confront climate change. The book is divided... -
Quixote: The Novel and the World by Ilan Stavans 9780393353426
RRP: €15.46€13.642015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha-an ageless masterpiece that is unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into "a knight in skirts". Freud... -
History of Sexuality by Rachele Dini
RRP: €7.74€7.27Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century's most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in History of Sexuality, the last project... -
The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins by Jenny Bourne Taylor 9780521549660
RRP: €30.93€26.17Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels,... -
The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Nicola J. Watson
RRP: €48.18€36.58The 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... -
Selected Writings by Guillaume Apollinaire 9780811200035
RRP: €17.84€15.51When 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... -
How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text by Dr. Eugene Giddens 9780521713979
RRP: €30.93€23.79This is an invaluable introductory guide for the English student who needs to decipher a page from a play, or a facsimile equivalent, from the Shakespearean period. The original quartos and folios of early play texts are increasingly subject to editorial... -
Postcolonial Literature by Dave Gunning
RRP: €28.55€26.00This 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... -
Communicating Vessels by Andre Breton
RRP: €23.79€20.87What Freud did for dreams, Andre Breton (1896-1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive force of imagination. Originally published in 1932 in France, Les Vases communicants is an effort to... -
In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing by Chris Baldick 9780198122494
RRP: €58.89€56.13This 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... -
Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays by Peter Watts 9781616963194
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616963194Author Peter WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Tachyon PublicationsPublisher Tachyon Publications -
Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten
RRP: €23.79€20.87No other contemporary novel received the volume and intensity of criticism and curiosity that greeted Nigger Heaven upon its publication in 1926. Carl Van Vechten's novel generated a storm of controversy because of its scandalous title and fed an... -
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
RRP: €15.46€13.61Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its... -
Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-Length Portrait by Jiri Pelan
RRP: €14.28€12.09Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats, and women (in roughly that order)," Bohumil... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui 9780691210759
RRP: €23.80€18.91An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or short philosophical sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this... -
Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds by Lubomir Dolezel
RRP: €35.70€32.07"The universe of possible worlds is constantly expanding and diversifying thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and hands. Literary fiction is probably the most active experimental laboratory of the world-constructing... -
Formula C1 Advanced Coursebook and Interactive eBook with Key with Digital Resources & App by Pearson Education 9781292391489
€44.96Formula is our new three-level Cambridge English exampreparation series for teens and young adults. It works equally well for bothextensive and intensive courses and covers B1 Preliminary, B2 First, and C1Advanced levels. Using Pearson's... -
Augustine: Confessions Books V-IX by Augustine 9780521253512
RRP: €32.12€27.89Books V-IX of the Confessions trace five crucial years in the life of Augustine, from his debut as a teacher of rhetoric in North Africa to his baptism as a Christian and the renunciation of a worldly career in Milan. This commentary will be invaluable... -
Celtic Unconscious, The: Joyce and Scottish Culture by Richard Barlow 9780268101015
RRP: €46.41€41.08The Celtic Unconscious offers a vital new interpretation of modernist literature through an examination of James Joyce's employment of Scottish literature and philosophy, as well as a commentary on his portrayal of shared Irish and Scottish histories and... -
Shakespeare's Apprenticeship: Identifying the Real Playwright's Earliest Works by Ramon Jimenez 9781476672649
RRP: €26.17€21.38The contents of the Shakespeare canon have come into question in recent years as scholars add plays or declare others only partially his work. Now, new literary and historical evidence demonstrates that five heretofore anonymous plays published or...