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Death of a Discipline by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9780231129459
RRP: €23.80€18.91For 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: €28.55€24.24In 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: €53.55€42.51A 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: €26.12€22.76In 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: €45.21€41.45'[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: €47.59€39.58The 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: €59.49€56.93Since 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: €24.99€19.79The 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: €11.84€10.71Apologies 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: €42.83€37.71This 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: €41.64€35.81Scotland'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: €34.50€32.02This 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: €5.94€4.32The 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: €26.17€26.05This 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: €23.79€21.05Best 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
€16.23‘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: €45.21€44.84With 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: €34.50€29.86Every 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: €22.61€22.02"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: €35.64€34.37This 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... -
Irony by Claire Colebrook
RRP: €23.79€21.05In 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... -
Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change: Race, Sex and Nation by Gerardine Meaney
RRP: €64.25€55.78This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic change in one of the most basic areas of human experience: how we understand our roles as men and women. It looks at the relationship between sexual and cultural... -
Monsieur Proust's Library: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Marcel Proust by Anka Muhlstein
RRP: €20.22€11.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635421880Author Anka MuhlsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
Exhortation to the Greeks by of Alexandria,Saint Clement
RRP: €29.69€27.83A scholarly evangelist.Clement of Alexandria, famous Father of the Church, is known chiefly from his own works. He was born, perhaps at Athens, about AD 150, son of non-Christian parents; he converted to Christianity probably in early manhood. He became... -
Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field by Carolyn Dever
RRP: €38.08€29.46Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as "Michael Field"-and who were partners and lovers for decades-is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literatureMichael Field, the renowned... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism by Dr Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
€40.19As our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenges - from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis, from an ideological decentering of the human, amongst many other things - the 'posthuman'... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture by Nicholas Hewitt 9780521794657
RRP: €32.12€27.61France entered the twentieth century as a powerful European and colonial nation. In the course of the century, her role changed dramatically: in the first fifty years two World Wars and economic decline removed its status as a world power, whilst the... -
The Norton Chaucer by David Lawton 9780393603477
€74.35Both an enhanced digital edition and a handsome print volume, The Norton Chaucer provides the complete poetry and prose, meticulously glossed and annotated specifically for undergraduate readers, with apparatus reflecting current scholarship-all at an... -
A History of Literary Criticism and Theory – From Plato to the Present by MAR Habib 9781405176088
RRP: €57.06€51.62This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and... -
Sparring With Gil Kane: Debating The History and Aesthetics of Comics by Gary Groth 9781683960713
RRP: €27.36€18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960713Author Gary GrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 717g -
Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity by Ian Baucom 9780691004037
RRP: €47.60€42.92In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing by Carolyn Dinshaw
RRP: €32.12€27.13The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or... -
Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation by Mark Stein 9780814251331
€36.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251331Author Mark SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 426g -
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster 9780691234045
RRP: €15.46€11.42A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into... -
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde by Alyce Mahon 9780691141619
RRP: €53.55€45.61How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine philosophy of sexual excess and human suffering that... -
The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muhammad by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
RRP: €28.55€24.80Three of the most renowned praise poems to the Prophet, the mantle odes span the arc of Islamic history from Muhammad's lifetime, to the medieval Mamluk period, to the modern colonial era. Over the centuries, they have informed the poetic and religious... -
Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays by Robert Duncan
RRP: €35.70€29.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tintin And The Secret Of Literature by Tom McCarthy
RRP: €10.70€7.97Herge's Tintin cartoon adventures have been translated into more than fifty languages and read by tens of millions of children aged, as their publishers like to say, 'from 7 to 77'. Arguing that their characters are as strong and their plots as complex... -
The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov by Julian W. Connolly
RRP: €30.93€26.17Vladimir Nabokov held the unique distinction of being one of the most important writers of the twentieth century in two separate languages, Russian and English. Known for his verbal mastery and bold plots, Nabokov fashioned a literary legacy that... -
Twelve Miles From a Lemon: Selected Writings and Sayings of Sydney Smith by Alan Hankinson 9780718829513
€55.98There are those who say that the Reverend Sydney Smith ought to be made a saint of the Church of England. There are those who say that he jested away his chances of a mitre. There are those who simply read him and laugh. Sydney Smith was not only a...