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Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest by Janet Adelman 9780415900393
RRP: €44.02€39.19An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall.Book InformationISBN 9780415900393Author Janet... -
A Companion to Shakespeare by David Scott Kastan 9780631218784
RRP: €47.54€42.89A 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: €28.55€24.80Edmund 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: €8.32€7.07Apologies 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: €7.74€7.27Understanding 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: €11.89€9.02This 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: €32.12€29.08How 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: €22.43€17.16Harry 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: €51.17€45.36In 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... -
Virginia Woolf and Trauma: Embodied Texts by Suzette Henke 9780944473795
RRP: €35.70€29.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944473795Author Suzette HenkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)... -
Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium by Philip R. Hardie 9780198146919
€95.47This 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: €11.89€9.13Object 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
€107.36The 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: €23.79€21.05Jean-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... -
Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival by G. Ronald Murphy 9780195306392
€78.66The 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: €41.65€27.26Apologies 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: €30.93€26.91This 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: €26.17€22.84Has 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... -
Blake. Wordsworth. Religion by Jonathan Roberts 9780826425027
€32.61This title features new scholarship informed by both historicist and metaphysical approaches, offering original readings of the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth and their reception. The history of responses to the works of William Wordsworth and William... -
The Art of Poetry: Cie: Songs of Ourselves by Neil Bowen 9781999737603
RRP: €21.41€17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999737603Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm... -
Collected Ancient Greek Novels by B. P. Reardon
RRP: €35.70€28.19Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the... -
The Life and Travels of Xavier Marmier (1808-1892): Bringing World Literature to France by Wendy S. Mercer 9780197263884
€84.01This is the first critical biography of Xavier Marmier. The celebrity of Marmier was such that his death made headline news in most major newspapers in France. Marmier made his reputation as a traveller, travel writer, translator, literary critic,... -
On Suicide by Robert Easthope
RRP: €7.74€7.27Emile Durkheim's 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also one that shows the degree to which strong interpretative skills can often provide the bedrock for high-level analysis. Durkheim's aim... -
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky 9780253201898
RRP: €20.22€18.61This selection of Mayakovsky's work covers his entire career-from the earliest pre-revolutionary lyrics to a poem found in a notebook after his suicide. Splendid translations of the poems, with the Russian on a facing page, and a fresh, colloquial... -
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture by Francis O'Gorman
RRP: €30.93€26.17The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially... -
The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet: Studies on Arthurian and Other Traditions by Andrew Breeze
RRP: €86.87€80.05The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet: Studies on Arthurian and Other Traditions delves into the origins of Arthur and reveals the author of the famous Gawain Manuscript. Its first part contains evidence for the Arthur of film and legend as a real... -
Word Power: Guide to Creative Writing by Julian Birkett 9780713648508
€23.79Many of us would like to write but find it difficult to begin. This book provides practical suggestions to help all writers give shape and substance to their ideas. There are tips on subjects to write about, ways of approaching them and how to develop... -
The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel by George Levine
RRP: €34.51€26.82MARY SHELLEY's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus grew out of a parlor game and a nightmare vision. The story of the book's origin is a famous one, first told in the introduction Mary Shelley wrote for the 1831 edition of the novel. The two... -
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Susan Stewart 9780226774145
RRP: €39.27€38.62What is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? How does poetry carry on the long tradition of making experience and suffering understood by others? With Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, Susan Stewart traces the path of the... -
Cognitive Literary Studies: Current Themes and New Directions by Isabel Jaen 9780292754423
RRP: €26.17€22.84In the first decade of the twenty-first century, our understanding of the cognition of literature was transformed by scientific discoveries, such as the mirror neuron system and its role in empathy. Addressing questions such as why we care so deeply... -
Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World by Peter Conrad
RRP: €22.60€16.20In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, better known as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most dramatically vital and poetically rich account of our... -
Prima Donna: The Psychology of Maria Callas by Paul Wink 9780190857738
RRP: €36.88€33.89Prima Donna: The Psychology of Maria Callas explores the psychological mechanisms underlying the hypnotic power of Callas's artistry and the unfolding of her tragic life story. Although precipitated by the trauma and shame that followed her abandonment... -
Love'S Sacrifice: By John Ford by A.T. Moore 9780719078286
RRP: €23.79€17.28A. T. Moore's thorough commentary on "Love's Sacrifice" is designed to be of use to all kinds of readers, from students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field. The notes provide full explanations of obscure words and phrases, and offer... -
Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's 'Maurice' by Emma Sutton
RRP: €35.69€32.58This is the first book-length study of Forster's posthumously-published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on Maurice and its dynamic afterlives in literature, film and new media during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Begun in 1913 and... -
Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human by David Herd 9780192872258
RRP: €92.82€84.35Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment. The book's starting point is the rapidly escalating use of detention as a response to human movement and the global production of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger 9780521556873
RRP: €30.93€26.17This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and... -
The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) by Deirdre Osborne
RRP: €28.55€24.24This Companion offers a comprehensive account of the influence of contemporary British Black and Asian writing in British culture. While there are a number of anthologies covering Black and Asian literature, there is no volume that comparatively... -
Shakespeare and London by Duncan Salkeld 9780198709954
RRP: €26.76€25.35Stratford made the man, but London made the phenomenon that is Shakespeare. This volume takes an historical approach to Shakespeare's connections with London. It explores Stratford's various links with the capital, significant locations for Shakespeare's... -
Modern African Drama by Biodun Jeyifo 9780393975291
RRP: €23.79€20.19"Backgrounds and Criticism" presents documents on modern African drama generally and on the assembled texts and authors specifically, including little-known materials. Featured are essays on Tawfik al-Hakim, Kateb Yacine, Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka,... -
Revisiting Italy: British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844–61) by Rebecca Butler 9780367768072
RRP: €47.59€41.72With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female...