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Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A (Centenary Edition) by Ayn Rand
RRP: $36.76$28.12After 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
$93.58With 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: $76.03$62.95Cambridge 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: $48.73$42.26No 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: $25.33$21.55Apologies 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: $38.98$34.50In 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... -
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork by Whitney Trettien
RRP: $42.88$37.42How 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: $175.50$131.14This 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: $37.89$28.20Apologies 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: $62.38$55.24This 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
$217.07As 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: $15.58$10.20William 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: $60.43$46.41In 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... -
Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology by Gregory Castle 9780631210054
RRP: $81.80$72.40Emphasising the increasingly regional or national approach to the legacies of colonialism, this Reader provides an entirely new way for students to engage with an important and complex area of discourse.About the AuthorGregory Castle teaches English and... -
Wilhelm von Humboldt and Transcultural Communication in a Multicultural World: Translating Humanity by Professor Emeritus John Walker 9781571139757
RRP: $156.00$149.39Wilhelm 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: $21.43$18.92Renowned 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: $12.68$11.91With 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: $54.58$47.07Shortlisted 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: $46.78$37.13Petrarch (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: $85.78$74.96Contemporary 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... -
The New Milton Criticism by Peter C. Herman 9781107603950
RRP: $44.83$38.14The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton... -
Skateboard by Jonathan Russell Clark
RRP: $19.48$14.96Object 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: $37.03$19.81"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: $40.93$40.23This 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... -
Postcolonialism Revisited: Writing Wales in English by Kirsti Bohata 9780708318928
RRP: $19.48$14.78Postcolonialism 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... -
Death of a Discipline by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9780231129459
RRP: $39.00$30.99For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural... -
The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction by Andrew Mangham
RRP: $46.78$39.72In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely... -
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity by Joseph Farrell
RRP: $87.75$69.65A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine... -
Bloody Murder: from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel by Julian Symons 9780892964963
RRP: $42.80$37.30In celebration of distinguished author/critic Julian Symons' 80th year, here is the third and final revised edition of his classic history of mystery fiction. The views expressed here are as candid as ever. One bestselling writer is called unreadable,... -
Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 by David Norbrook 9780521785693
RRP: $74.08$67.92'[Norbrook's] marvellously original, densely researched study of the English republican imagination is an attempt to retrieve forgotten figures like the regicide Henry Marten, as well as to extend our understanding of the works of Milton and Marvell.'... -
Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction by Malcolm Bowie 9780521275880
RRP: $77.98$64.86The views of Freud, Proust and Lacan are depicted through this staging of a series of provocative dialogues between psychological science and imaginative literature of the twentieth century.Book InformationISBN 9780521275880Author Malcolm BowieFormat... -
Modern Genre Theory by David Duff 9780582368057
RRP: $97.48$93.29Since Aristotle, genre has been one of the fundamental concepts of literary theory, and much of the world's literature and criticism has been shaped by ideas about the nature, function and value of literary genres. Modern developments in critical theory,... -
The Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction and Notes by Diane J. Rayor 9780520282117
RRP: $40.95$32.43The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. Well before the advent of writing in Greece, they were performed by traveling bards at religious events,... -
A Study Guide for August Wilson's Fences by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375399302
RRP: $19.40$17.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375399302Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency by Eva Feder Kittay
RRP: $70.18$61.80This new edition of Eva Feder Kittay's feminist classic, Love's Labor, explores how theories of justice and morality must be reconfigured when intersecting with care and dependency, and the failure of policy towards women who engage in care work. The... -
The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature by Gerard Carruthers
RRP: $68.23$58.68Scotland's rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages - English, Scots and... -
Introduction to Japanese Horror Film by Colette Balmain
RRP: $56.53$52.47This book is a major historical and cultural overview of an increasingly popular genre. Starting with the cultural phenomenon of Godzilla, it explores the evolution of Japanese horror from the 1950s through to contemporary classics of Japanese horror... -
The Spirit of Japanese Poetry by Yone Noguchi 9781513282503
RRP: $9.73$7.08The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914) is a collection of essays by Yone Noguchi. Although he is widely recognized as a leading poet in English and Japanese of the modernist period, Noguchi was also a dedicated literary critic who advocated for the... -
Haruki Murakami's "the Wind-up Bird Chronicle" by Matthew C. Strecher 9780826452399
RRP: $42.88$42.69This is an excellent guide to Haruki MurakamiGCOs extraordinary novel. It features a biography of the author (including an interview), a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If youGCOre studying this novel, reading it for your book... -
Louis Althusser by Luke Ferretter
RRP: $38.98$34.50Best known for his theories of ideology and its impact on politics and culture, Louis Althusser revolutionized Marxist theory. His writing changed the face of literary and cultural studies, and continues to influence political modes of criticism such as...