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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 -
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 When he died in 1973, he left behind a vast body of unpublished material related to his fictive mythology.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... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui
RRP: £35.00£27.74An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or philosophical short sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this... -
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... -
Death of a Discipline by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9780231129459
RRP: £20.00£15.89For 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: £23.99£20.37In 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: £45.00£35.72A 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: £21.95£19.13In 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: £37.99£34.83'[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: £39.99£33.26The 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: £49.99£47.84Since 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: £21.00£16.63The 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: £9.95£9.00Apologies 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: £35.99£31.69This 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: £34.99£30.09Scotland'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: £28.99£26.91This 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: £4.99£3.63The 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: £21.99£21.89This 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: £19.99£17.69Best 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... -
A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Celebration of John Berger by Yasmin Gunaratnam 9781350429253
£13.64‘John Berger has made the world a better place to live in. These essays tell us how he succeeded in that task.’ Arundhati Roy In this collection of essays on the work of, and conversations with, John Berger, thirty-seven of his friends, artistic... -
The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction by John Sutherland 9781408203903
RRP: £37.99£37.68With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever... -
Shakespeare and Tragedy by John Bayley 9780367708276
RRP: £28.99£25.09Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G. Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an... -
Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore
RRP: £19.00£18.50"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely... -
Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century by Peter H. Lee 9780824807566
RRP: £29.95£28.88This books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century. The book contains a dazzling array of myths and legends, essays and biographies, love poems and Zen...