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Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein
RRP: €24.98€21.86Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein... -
The Rise of the Gothic Novel by Maggie Kilgour
RRP: €47.59€41.72One of the central images conjured up by the gothic novel is that of a shadowy spectre slowly rising from a mysterious abyss. In The Rise of the Gothic Novel, Maggie Kilgour argues that the ghost of the gothic is now resurrected in the critical... -
The Book On The Bookshelf by Henry Petroski 9780375706394
RRP: €19.03€13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706394Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe by Rebekah Sheldon
RRP: €26.17€22.84Generation Anthropocene. Storms of My Grandchildren. Our Children's Trust. Why do these and other attempts to imagine the planet's uncertain future return us-again and again-to the image of the child? In The Child to Come, Rebekah Sheldon demonstrates... -
Betrumped: The Surprising History of 3000 Long-Lost, Exotic and Endangered Words by Edward Allhusen 9781445699080
RRP: €11.89€7.90Words change: they immigrate and emigrate. They reflect changing fashions and roam across centuries. This book delves into their origins: Where do words come from? How do their meanings change? Why do we stop using them? This book explores over... -
Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy by Stephanie Shirilan
RRP: €47.59€41.72Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that modern scholars often treat the Anatomy as an unmediated repository of early modern views on melancholy,... -
How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis by N. Katherine Hayles
RRP: €29.75€28.49How do we think? N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has... -
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms by D. Miller
RRP: €26.17€24.72Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land-all are celebrated "wonders" of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our... -
Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez by Franco Moretti
€22.66"Take Faust, what is it? A 'tragedy', as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. How about Moby-Dick? Encyclopedia, novel or romance? Or even a 'singular medley,' as one anonymous 1851 review put it? ... -
Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology by Gregory Castle 9780631210054
RRP: €49.92€44.18Emphasising 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... -
Aeneid 3 by Virgil 9781585102273
RRP: €22.60€18.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102273Author VergilFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 313g -
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth 9780415355292
RRP: €20.22€18.11When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the... -
Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives by Katherine Elkins
RRP: €29.74€26.80With the story of a madeleine dipped in tea, Marcel Proust makes famous moments that transport one to an earlier time thought lost forever. His In Search of Lost Time announces a quest narrative with lost time as its goal. We follow the journey of a... -
The Outsider (L'Etranger) by Ben Okri 9781786826657
€13.90Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri. A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare... -
Stan Lee: A Life by Bob Batchelor
RRP: €21.41€15.41The definitive biography of Marvel legend Stan Lee, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.Stan Lee's extraordinary life was as epic as the superheroes he co-created, from the Amazing Spider-Man to the Mighty Avengers. His ideas and voice are at... -
The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces by Henry James
RRP: €28.56€27.88This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multivolume "New York" Edition of Henry James' fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great... -
The Historical Novel by Georg Lukacs 9780803279100
€43.83Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel by Anthony Roche 9780521666862
RRP: €32.12€27.13Brian Friel is widely recognized as Ireland's greatest living playwright, winning an international reputation through such acclaimed works as Translations (1980) and Dancing at Lughnasa (1990). This 2006 collection of specially commissioned essays... -
Rilke: The Life of the Work by Charlie Louth
RRP: €136.85€124.81The life of Rilke's work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the development of that life as it unfolds over Rilke's career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us when we read? This is a question of the greatest interest to Rilke, who... -
The Cambridge Companion to Camus by Edward J. Hughes
RRP: €30.93€26.17Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of... -
A Theory of Literary Production by Pierre Macherey
RRP: €20.22€18.11Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey's first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production dared to challenge perceived wisdom, and quickly established him as a pivotal figure... -
A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us about Justice by Kenji Yoshino 9780061769122
RRP: €19.03€12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061769122Author Kenji YoshinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales by Stephen Knight
RRP: €38.68€33.13Although nearly everyone has heard the name of Robin Hood, few have actually read any medieval tales about the legendary outlaw. Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren set out to correct this discrepancy in their comprehensive collection of all... -
Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times by Tobias Menely 9780271078731
RRP: €33.26€29.16Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the... -
An Introduction to Applied Semiotics: Tools for Text and Image Analysis by Louis Hebert 9780367351120
RRP: €45.21€39.72An Introduction to Applied Semiotics presents nineteen semiotics tools for text and image analysis. Covering a variety of different schools and approaches, together with the author's own original approach, this is a full and synthetic introduction to... -
No Other Book by R. Jarrell 9780060956387
RRP: €14.27€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060956387Author R. JarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation by Laura Ashe
RRP: €41.04€35.78The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered... -
Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger 9780393925890
RRP: €15.46€13.64It is canonical as a cultural text, rather than a purely literary one, as this Norton Critical Edition reflects. An extensive "Contexts" section includes maps, photographs, and documents showing how and why Alger used the backdrop of New York... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London by Lawrence Manley 9780521722315
RRP: €29.74€25.20London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland... -
Gay Canon by Robert Drake 9780385492287
RRP: €23.74€17.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385492287Author Robert DrakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9781420974720
€7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420974720Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm -
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Hubert L. Dreyfus 9780710806550
€63.64First Published in 1984. This book was born out of a disagreement among friends. Paul Rabinow, attending a seminar given in 1979 by Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle which concerned, among other things, Michel Foucault, objected to the characterization of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry by Stephen M. Hart
RRP: €30.93€26.17The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive,... -
Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania by Karin Littau 9780745616599
RRP: €21.41€19.09Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that readers have often read excessively, obsessively, and for sensory stimulation? Posing these and other questions,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe by Kevin J. Hayes
RRP: €27.36€23.28This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American... -
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 3 by Malcolm Lyons
RRP: €23.80€17.15Every 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: €19.64€19.31The 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... -
With Bodies: Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition by Marco Caracciolo 9780814258088
€40.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258088Author Marco CaraccioloFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
30 Great Myths about Jane Austen by Claudia L. Johnson
RRP: €24.93€17.05A 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... -
Anna Karenina: A Norton Critical Edition by Leo Tolstoy 9780393966428
€18.60"Backgrounds and Sources" includes central passages from the letters of Tolstoy and his correspondents, S. A. Tolstoy's diaries, and contemporary accounts translated by George Gibian exclusively for this Norton Critical Edition. Together these materials...