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The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 3 by Malcolm Lyons
RRP: £20.00£14.41Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love,... -
On Narrative by W. J. T. Mitchell 9780226532172
RRP: £16.50£16.23The 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... -
30 Great Myths about Jane Austen by Claudia L. Johnson
RRP: £20.95£14.33A fascinating look into the myths that continue to shape our understanding and appreciation of Jane Austen. Was Jane Austen the best-selling novelist of her time? Are all her novels romances? Did they depict the traditional world of the aristocracy? Is... -
Feminizing Chaucer by Jill Mann 9780859916134
RRP: £24.99£17.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Art of Poetry: Forward's Poem of the Decade anthology by Neil Bowen 9780993077876
RRP: £10.17£8.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077876Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm... -
The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages by Beryl Smalley
RRP: £32.00£28.21The Bible is the most widely read book in the world. From the transcription of the Old Testament to Greek, to the collection of the Gospels, the Bible has always been in a state of literary and scholarly transition. In her classic work, The Study of the... -
The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy by Lingua Franca 9780803279957
RRP: £18.99£15.58In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text. The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism. And the... -
Preromanticism by Marshall Brown
RRP: £50.00£43.81A 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: £72.00£65.53The 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 Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen by Jeremy Black 9780803262409
RRP: £15.99£13.11The adventures and antics of James Bond have provided the world with many of the most gripping story lines of the last half-century. Fleming's novels were bestsellers in their day, and the Bond films have been even more popular, becoming the most... -
The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison by Justine Tally 9780521678322
RRP: £22.99£19.56Nobel 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... -
American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen by Gavin Cologne-Brookes 9780807178591
£22.78Apologies 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
£37.16The 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... -
Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante by Charles Williams 9780976402541
RRP: £18.95£13.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976402541Author Charles WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature by Angelyn Mitchell 9780521675826
RRP: £26.99£22.80The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry... -
Practicing New Historicism by Catherine Gallagher 9780226279350
RRP: £27.00£26.47For almost 20 years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In "Practicing New Historicism", two of its most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and... -
Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A (Centenary Edition) by Ayn Rand
RRP: £18.85£14.42After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer... -
The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf by Anne E. Fernald 9780198885511
£47.99With 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... -
Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy by Marilyn Butler 9780521286565
RRP: £38.99£32.28Cambridge 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 Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Elizabeth Spragins
RRP: £24.99£21.67No 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,... -
So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron by Susie Thomas 9781910170618
RRP: £12.99£11.05Apologies 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 -
Irony by Claire Colebrook
RRP: £19.99£17.69In this handy volume, Claire Colebrook offers an overview of the history and structure of irony, from Socrates to the present.Students will welcome this clear, concise guide, which:*traces the use of the concept through history, from Greek times to the... -
The Historical Renaissance: New Essays on Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture by Heather Dubrow
RRP: £40.00£38.55The Historical Renaissance both exemplifies and examines the most influential current in contemporary studies of the English Renaissance: the effort to analyze the interplay between literature, history, and politics. The broad and varied manifestations... -
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork by Whitney Trettien
RRP: £21.99£19.19How do early modern media underlie today's digital creativity? In Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London print trade to uncover makerspaces and collaboratories where paper media were cut up and reassembled into radical,... -
Shakespearean Verse Speaking: Text and Theatre Practice by Dr. Abigail Rokison-Woodall 9780521764346
RRP: £90.00£67.25This book uses evidence from theatrical hand-books, performance practice and drama training to provide a synthesis of academic and theatrical approaches to the Shakespearean text. Abigail Rokison's work combines scholarship with practical exploration in... -
Sacramental Letters by Nina Butorac 9781532652967
RRP: £19.43£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532652967Author Nina ButoracFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Correspondence of H.G. Wells: Volume 1 1880-1903 by David C. Smith
RRP: £31.99£28.33This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and while a few are business - to publishers, agents and... -
Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth by Verlyn Flieger 9780313305306
£111.32As a scholar of medieval languages and literature, J.R.R. Tolkien brought to his fiction an intense interest in myth and legend. When he died in 1973, he left behind a vast body of unpublished material related to his fictive mythology. Now edited and... -
William Shakespeare: A Very Peculiar History by Jacqueline Morley 9781908177148
RRP: £7.99£5.23William Shakespeare, A Very Peculiar History uniquely explores the life and works of the widely-regarded greatest writer of the English language. Through dispelling common myths (Could his father really not read or write? What really happened during 'the... -
Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative by J. A. Burrow 9780521050661
RRP: £30.99£23.80In medieval society, gestures and speaking looks played an even more important part in public and private exchanges than they do today. Gestures meant more than words, for example, in ceremonies of homage and fealty. In this, the first study of its kind... -
Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa by Josiah Blackmore
RRP: £21.99£19.19In this first book to study Portuguese texts about Africa, Moorings brings an important but little-known body of European writings to bear on contemporary colonial thought. Images of Africa as monstrous, dangerous, and lush were created in early... -
Wilhelm von Humboldt and Transcultural Communication in a Multicultural World: Translating Humanity by Professor Emeritus John Walker 9781571139757
RRP: £80.00£76.61Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) is the progenitor of modern linguistics and the originator of the modern teaching and research university. However, his work has received remarkably little attention in the English-speaking world. Humboldt conceives... -
What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World by Robert Hass 9780061923913
RRP: £10.99£9.70Renowned for his magisterial verse, Robert Hass is also a brilliant essayist. The New York Times hailed him as a writer who is so intelligent that to read his poetry or prose, or to hear him speak, gives one an almost visceral pleasure. Now, with What... -
The Nature of Prejudice by Alexander O'Connor
RRP: £6.50£6.11With his 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice, American psychologist Gordon Allport displays the crucial skill of reasoning, producing and organizing an argument that was persuasive enough to have a major impact not only in universities, but also on... -
The Printed Reader: Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Amelia Dale
RRP: £27.99£24.14Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies) The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch by Albert Russell Ascoli
RRP: £23.99£19.04Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this... -
Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction by Sue Kossew
RRP: £43.99£38.44Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous... -
Skateboard by Jonathan Russell Clark
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. How did the skateboard go from a menacing fad to an Olympic sport? Writer and skateboarder Jonathan Russell Clark answers this question by going... -
Nilling: Prose by Lisa Robertson 9781897388891
RRP: £18.99£10.16"I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt's idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous and knotted agency to be found there. Just beneath the... -
Robert Browning: Selected Writings by Richard Cronin 9780198797623
RRP: £20.99£20.63This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this is the first one-volume fully annotated edition of...