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What Barfield Thought by Landon Loftin 9781666795547
RRP: $54.60$40.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666795547Author Landon LoftinFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism by Maggie Humm 9780745011943
RRP: $89.68$86.03This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates within each approach. Each chapter has an easy-to-use... -
Book Ownership in Stuart England by David Pearson
$180.88This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of thousands of books, and a list of over... -
Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kakfa, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva by Helene Cixous 9780816619412
RRP: $38.98$34.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816619412Author Helene CixousFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama by Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
$54.21In a volume that has become a standard text in Irish studies, editors Maureen ORourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey thirteen centuries of Irish literature, including old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish folksongs and a selection of... -
Shakespeare and Feminist Theory by Marianne Novy 9781472567062
RRP: $50.68$47.39Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 9780679433132
RRP: $68.25$44.05Apologies 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)... -
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... -
Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books by Margaret Willes
RRP: $27.28$24.67An entertaining journey through five centuries of acquiring, reading, and enjoying books in Britain and America It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who... -
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory by Professor Ann Rosalind Jones
RRP: $52.63$44.27During the late sixteenth century 'fashion' first took on the sense of restless change in contrast to the older sense of fashioning or making. As fashionings, clothes were perceived as material forms of personal and social identity which made the man or... -
Aesthetic Ideology by Paul De Man 9780816622047
RRP: $38.98$34.20An important reconsideration of ideology by one of this century's most eminent theorists.This long-awaited volume by one of the major figures of twentieth-century thought represents perhaps the most provocative, serious, and important rethinking of... -
The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) by Deirdre Osborne
RRP: $46.78$39.72This 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... -
Introducing Feminism: A Graphic Guide by Cathia Jenainati
RRP: $17.53$13.07The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated edition of "Introducing Feminism" surveys the major... -
Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature by Froma I. Zeitlin 9780226979229
RRP: $58.50$57.82Relations between the sexes was a concern of ancient Greek thought and literature, extending from considerations of masculine and feminine roles in domestic and political spheres to the organization of the cosmos in a pantheon of gods and goddesses. This... -
Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination by Robert T. Tally, Jr.
RRP: $46.78$40.64What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism,... -
Jane Austen's Mansfield Park by John Sutherland
RRP: $17.53$14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776304Author John SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace by Andrew Van der Vlies 9780826406613
$35.28This book presents a clearly written introduction to the novel's themes and form, inspired by the author's practical experience of several years of teaching the novel at university level in Britain, as well as his background as a South African-born and... -
Pilgrimage and Literary Tradition by Philip Edwards 9780521124348
RRP: $76.03$62.95In this original and wide-ranging book, Philip Edwards examines the theme of pilgrimage in the works of a variety of major writers, including Shakespeare, Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Yeats, and Heaney. Edwards considers the original and early uses of the terms... -
Measure for Measure by P. Edmondson
$47.01Measure for Measure generates much debate and is strikingly modern. This introductory guide offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performance, studies of influential performances, a survey of film... -
Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed by Clive Cussler
RRP: $62.38$40.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501162060Author Clive CusslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 130mm *... -
Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years by Nicholas Roe
$69.95This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new edition responds to the most significant critical work on... -
Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism by Graham Huggan
$72.11The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. In a provocative... -
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity by Ardel Haefele-Thomas 9780708324653
RRP: $38.98$29.70Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From... -
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England by Claire Preston 9780192867032
RRP: $57.51$52.94How should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorical figures, neologisms, verse-forms, and generic variety that characterise the literary texture of their... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel by Ato Quayson
RRP: $46.78$38.98The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Reflecting the development of postcolonial literary studies into a significant and intellectually vibrant field,... -
The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt by Peter Murphy
RRP: $46.78$40.64Thomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells-in vivid and compelling detail-of the... -
The Meridian: Final Version-Drafts-Materials by Paul Celan
RRP: $46.78$41.42Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occasion of Celan's acceptance of the Georg Buchner Prize for literature, The Meridian is one of, if not the most important poetological statement of the second half of... -
Who's Who in Non-Classical Mythology by Edgerton Skyes
RRP: $50.68$44.13First published in 2001. Part of the Routledge Who's Who series, this is an accessible, authorative and enlightening definitive biographical guides to a range of subjects. Focusing on mythology, this book provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to world... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture by Nicholas Rzhevsky 9780521175586
RRP: $52.63$45.24Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture... -
Murmurations by Vanessa Jackson 9781909570085
RRP: $19.50$15.95To read this book is to step into the studio of a painter. These writings, rich sources of information, share thoughts, processes and practices that together demonstrate links between geometry, visual perception, history and literature. Murmurations is... -
An Anatomy of The Turn of the Screw by Thomas Mabry Cranfill
RRP: $31.18$27.77The ambiguous intent of Henry James's horror story The Turn of the Screw has fascinated and divided its readers since its publication in 1898. The division arises between the apparitionists and the nonapparitionists in interpretation of the plot and the... -
The Oxford Handbook of John Donne by Jeanne Shami 9780198715573
$69.42The Oxford Handbook of John Donne presents scholars with the history of Donne studies and provides tools to orient scholarship in this field in the twenty-first century and beyond. Though profoundly historical in its orientation, the Handbook is not a... -
The Author by Andrew Bennett 9780415281645
RRP: $38.98$34.50This volume investigates the changing definitions of the author, what it has meant historically to be an 'author', and the impact that this has had on literary culture. Andrew Bennett presents a clearly-structured discussion of the various theoretical... -
Murach's Java Programming (6th Edition) by Joel Murach 9781943872879
RRP: $118.93$81.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943872879Author Joel MurachFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Mike Murach & Associates Inc.Publisher Mike Murach & Associates Inc. -
Sequel to History: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth
RRP: $97.50$76.28Sequel to History offers a comprehensive definition of postmodernism as a reformation of time. Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth uses a diversified theoretical approachdrawing on post-structuralism, feminism, new historicism, and twentieth-century scienceto... -
A Guide to Old English by Bruce Mitchell 9780631226369
RRP: $81.80$72.40The sixth edition of this popular introduction to Old English language and literature retains the general structure and style of previous editions, but has been updated and includes two new texts: Wulf and Eadwacer and Judith. A new edition of the most... -
Sunsong: Book 1 by Frances Mordecai 9780582765559
$26.87The anthology Sunsong (Book 1) contains a mixture of poems from across the Caribbean and from other parts of the world. The selection is varied, challenging and enjoyable. It includes rhythmic poems for choral orchestration, story poems for humour and... -
The Black Reproductive: Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood by Sara Clarke Kaplan 9780816695690
RRP: $40.93$35.82How Black women's reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy-and remains key to their dismantling In the United States, slavery relied on the reproduction and other labors of unfree Black women. Nearly four... -
The Complete Poems of Shakespeare by Cathy Shrank 9780582784109
RRP: $77.98$77.10Although best known for his plays, William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was also a poet who achieved extraordinary depth and variety in only a few key works. This edition of his poetry provides detailed notes, commentary and appendices resulting in an... -
Outline of American Literature, An Paper by Peter B. High
$77.24A survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of the United States from Colonial times to the1980s. Book InformationISBN 9780582745025Author Peter HighFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint LongmanPublisher Pearson Education Limited