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Shakespeare and Popular Music by Adam Hansen 9781441126986
£32.30Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites, showing how musicians have woven the Bard into their sounds. How have Shakespearean characters, words, texts and iconography been represented... -
Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law by Joseph R. Slaughter 9780823228188
RRP: £35.00£31.14In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature" and international human rights law are related phenomena... -
Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches by Ellen Greene
RRP: £27.00£21.06Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's... -
Absalom, Absalom!: A Norton Critical Edition by William Faulkner
RRP: £14.99£13.43This Norton Critical Edition includes: The authoritative text of Absalom, Absalom!, established by Noel Polk in 1986 and accompanied by Susan Scott Parrish's introduction and explanatory footnotes.Two maps and five other images.A rich selection of... -
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reappraisal by E. L. Wright 9780745619668
£18.09What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide-ranging... -
A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume III: Books XVII-XXIV by Joseph Russo 9780198149538
RRP: £47.99£42.08Now available in paperback, this is the final instalment of a three-volume presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's Odyssey compiled by an international team of scholars and published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo... -
The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007 by Hayden V. White
RRP: £29.00£26.48Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines where narrative is of primary concern, including history,... -
The Work of Literature by Derek Attridge 9780198798903
£30.73What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes responsible... -
Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton by Professor J. R. Mulryne 9780719043505
RRP: £10.99£7.90Women Beware Women is among the most powerful and adroitly plotted of Jacobean tragedies. Written by Thomas Middleton, a later contemporary of Shakespeare, the play deals with topics of enduring fascination such as sexual and financial greed, the sexual... -
Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature by Colm Toibin 9780743244671
RRP: £18.99£13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743244671Author Colm ToibinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 133mm * 19mm -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9781451621709
RRP: £9.99£8.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451621709Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Shakespeare: the 'Lost Years' by E. A. J. Honigmann 9780719054259
RRP: £19.99£17.82This literary detective story throws light on the problem of what Shakespeare was doing between leaving school and appearing as an actor and playwright in London. Bringing forward historic and documentary evidence, this text argues that Shakespeare... -
Post-Postmodernism: or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism by Jeffrey T. Nealon
RRP: £20.99£18.37Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the... -
Comedy: "An Essay on Comedy" by George Meredith. "Laughter" by Henri Bergson by Wylie Sypher
RRP: £25.50£22.44Casting a critical eye on comic works throughout the ages, Meredith finds that the most skilled masters of the comic art-Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Cervantes, Fielding, Moliere-used comedy to grasp the essence of humanity. Comedy, according to... -
Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment by David Crystal 9781108466691
RRP: £17.99£15.52How 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... -
History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene by Ian Baucom
RRP: £19.99£17.54In History 4 Degrees Celsius Ian Baucom continues his inquiries into the place of the Black Atlantic in the making of the modern and postmodern world. Putting black studies into conversation with climate change, Baucom outlines how the ongoing concerns... -
A Companion to Greek Religion by Daniel Ogden 9781444334173
RRP: £42.95£37.97This major addition to Blackwell's Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. Written by a panel of international... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin
RRP: £19.99£15.23Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often misunderstood. This introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the... -
The Works of Patrick Branwell Bronte: Volume 2, 1834-1836 by Victor A. Neufeldt
RRP: £61.99£54.61This volume, first published in 1999, contains all of Patrick Branwell Bronte's known writings, excluding his letters, from 1834 to 1836. This title primarily focuses on the creation of Angria, and on the growing conflict between Alexander Percy, Earl of... -
Heroic Legends of the North: An Introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich Cycles by Edward R. Haymes
RRP: £31.99£28.33Originally published in 1996, this book is a study of two of the central themes of medieval German mythology, the Dietrich and Nibelung legends. It traces its two legendary topics form their historical roots during the last centuries of the Roman Empire... -
The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature by A. Robert Lee
RRP: £43.99£38.44Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown familiar? Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs. Likewise the frontline texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in modern American literary history. On the Road serves as... -
Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence by Pablo Neruda 9780393306439
RRP: £27.99£23.66In this beautiful printing of Poirot's classic work-featuring new scans from newly made prints-we come to know the poet's magical world through his poems, his houses, the wonderful things he collected, and his friends.About the AuthorPablo Neruda was... -
A Companion to Shakespeare by David Scott Kastan 9780631218784
RRP: £39.95£36.04A Companion to Shakespeare is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, indeed for anyone with an interest in his plays. Contains 28 newly commissioned essays written by the most distinguished historians and literary... -
Edmund Husserl's "Origin of Geometry": An Introduction by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £23.99£20.84Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry": An Introduction (1962) is Jacques Derrida's earliest published work. In this commentary-interpretation of the famous appendix to Husserl's The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Derrida... -
John Clare: The Trespasser by John Goodridge
RRP: £6.99£5.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170298Author John GoodridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Eyewitness Testimony by William J. Jenkins
RRP: £6.50£6.11Understanding evidence is critical in a court of law - and it is just as important for critical thinking. Elizabeth Loftus, a pioneering psychologist, made a landmark contribution to both these areas in Eyewitness Testimony, a trail-blazing work that... -
Emyr Humphreys: Conversations and Reflections by Emyr Humphreys 9780708317358
RRP: £9.99£7.58This volume offers a section of the most important essays published by Emyr Humphreys over a 30-year period. The essays are prefaced by a series of discusssions which explore some of the intellectual concerns and motifs that have recurred throughout... -
The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices by Konrad Hirschler 9780748677344
RRP: £26.99£24.44How the written text became accessible to wider audiences in medieval Egypt and Syria. Medieval Islamic societies belonged to the most bookish cultures of their period. Using a wide variety of documentary, narrative and normative sources, Konrad... -
Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books behind the Hogwarts Adventures by John Granger 9780425229798
RRP: £18.85£14.42Harry Potter. The name conjures up J.K. Rowling's wondrous world of magic that has captured the imaginations of millions on both the printed page and the silver screen with bestselling novels and blockbuster films. The true magic found in this children's... -
Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism by Mark Steven 9781421423579
RRP: £43.00£38.12In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned-and aesthetically responsive-to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR... -
The Afterlife of St Cuthbert: Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500 by Christiania Whitehead
RRP: £22.99£20.66This ambitious book presents the first sustained analysis of the evolving representation of Cuthbert, the premier saint of northern England. The study spans both major and neglected texts across eight centuries, from his earliest depictions in anonymous... -
Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium by Philip R. Hardie 9780198146919
£80.23This book explores Virgil's poetic and mythical transformation of Roman imperialist ideology. The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire; between orbis and urbs... -
Sock by Kim Adrian
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Who ponders the sock? This common object is something people tug on and take off daily with hardly a thought. Unraveling the garment's history,... -
The Norton Introduction to Literature by Kelly J. Mays 9780393886306
£90.22The Norton Introduction to Literature offers the trusted writing and reading guidance students need, along with an exciting mix of the stories, poems and plays instructors want. The Shorter Fourteenth Edition is the most inclusive ever, with more... -
Jean-Francois Lyotard by Simon Malpas
RRP: £19.99£17.69Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the most celebrated proponents of what has become known as the 'postmodern'. More than almost any other contemporary theorist, he has explored the relations between knowledge, art, politics and history, in ways that offer... -
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... -
Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival by G. Ronald Murphy 9780195306392
£66.10The phenomenal success of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code has given new life to the perennial debate about the nature and meaning of the mysterious Holy Grail. The story of the Grail, usually identified as some kind of mystical vessel, has gripped the... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 9780679433132
RRP: £35.00£22.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679433132Author Dante AlighieriFormat HardbackPage Count 960Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm)... -
Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy by Dr Sarah Olsen
RRP: £25.99£22.61This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays... -
The Literary in Theory by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £21.99£19.19Has theory neglected literature? Often literary and cultural theory, which goes by the nickname "Theory," has seemed to be the theory of everything except literature: theory of language, of sexuality, of history, of the body, of the psyche, of meaning...