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Redemption and Regret: Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale by James Scarth Gale 9781487504342
RRP: €69.02€57.88Redemption and Regret presents two previously unpublished typescripts of James Scarth Gale, a Canadian missionary to Korea for four decades (1888-1927). During his time in Korea, Gale developed into the foremost Western scholar of Korean history,... -
Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry by Gary Glazner 9780916397661
RRP: €21.36€14.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916397661Author Gary GlaznerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Manic D Press,U.S.Publisher Manic D Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 240g -
Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895-1929 by Mary de Rachewiltz 9780199584390
€89.39The poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was the only child of Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942) and Isabel Weston Pound (1860-1948). He grew up in Philadelphia, where his father was an assayer in the U.S. Mint; was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and at... -
In Common Things: Commerce, Culture, and Ecology in British Romantic Literature by Matthew Rowney 9781487543488
RRP: €53.55€44.63The hardness of stone, the pliancy of wood, the fluidity of palm oil, the crystalline nature of salt, and the vegetable qualities of moss - each describes a way of being in and understanding the world. These substances are both natural objects hailed in... -
Martin Buber's I and Thou by Simon Ravenscroft 9781912453795
RRP: €23.79€21.05Martin Buber's I and Thou argues that humans engage with the world in two ways. One is with the attitude of an 'I' towards an 'It', where the self stands apart from objects as items of experience or use. The other is with the attitude of an 'I' towards a... -
Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution by Katherine Astbury 9781907975424
RRP: €89.25€87.88This book examines both the notion that the non-political fiction of the Revolution is responding to the events in France and the idea that trauma theory might shed light on the ways in which novelists responded to the Revolution.About the... -
The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature: Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century by Dawn LaValle Norman 9781108494175
RRP: €107.10€96.43This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized... -
Edna O'Brien by Amanda Greenwood 9780746309674
RRP: €22.24€20.33Since the publication of her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960, Edna O'Brien has experimented with an impressive range of forms and genres. Her most recent trilogy, completed in 1999 with the publication of Wild Decembers, focuses on issues... -
Reading English Verse in Manuscript c.1350-c.1500 by Daniel Sawyer 9780198857778
RRP: €103.53€93.90Reading English Verse in Manuscript, c.1350-c.1500 is the first book-length history of reading for later Middle English poetry. While much past work in the history of reading has revolved around marginalia, this book consults a wider range of evidence,... -
Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 by Christopher Norton Warren 9780198831136
RRP: €41.04€37.57Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 is a literary history of international law in the age of Shakespeare, Milton, Grotius, and Hobbes. Seeking to revise the ways scholars understand early modern English literature in relation to the history of... -
Why Superman Doesn't Take Over The World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics by J. Brian O'Roark 9780198829478
RRP: €20.22€15.76Why do heroes fight each other? Why do villains keep trying even though they almost never win? Why don't heroes simply take over the world? Economics and comics may seem to be a world apart. But in the hands of economics professor and comic book... -
Reconstructing Modernism: British Literature, Modern Architecture, and the State by Ashley Maher 9780198816485
RRP: €103.53€93.90Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this... -
Cyfan-dir Cymru: Ysgrifau ar Gyfannu Dwy Lenyddiaeth Cymru by M. Wynn Thomas 9781786830982
RRP: €9.51€7.33Dyma gasgliad o ysgrifau sy'n archwilio rhai o'r dolennau cyswllt cymhleth a chyfoethog rhwng diwylliannau llen Cymraeg a llen Saesneg Cymru dros ganrif a mwy. Mae'r testunau a drafodir yn amrywio o bynciau cyffredinol (tarddiad y syniad fod y Cymry yn... -
Edwin and Willa Muir: A Literary Marriage by The late Margery Palmer McCulloch 9780192858047
RRP: €133.88€120.95This is the story of a literary marriage. It tells of the partnership between Edwin and Willa Muir, two intellectuals from small town Scottish backgrounds and their discovery of Europe in the years after the first and second world wars. It tells us about... -
Women’s Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel: An Intertextual Study by Aleksandra Tryniecka 9781666905779
RRP: €96.39€88.66Women's Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel is a dialogical and intertextual journey through the pages of nineteenth-century novels and their modern, revisionary counterparts. It is the book not only dedicated to the readers... -
The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Daniel Matore 9780192857217
RRP: €77.35€69.69Is poetry a visual art? Why do the pages of nineteenth-century poetry look so different to those of twentieth-century verse? Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining... -
Richard Rolle: On Lamentations: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary by Michael Van Dussen 9781802078299
RRP: €35.69€32.58This volume presents the first study, critical edition, and translation of one of the earliest works by Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349), a hermit and mystic whose works were widely read in England and on the European continent into the early modern period... -
Michel Houellebecq: Humanity and its Aftermath by Douglas Morrey 9781846318610
€40.56An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novelists writing in French. Houellebecq has... -
Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought by Patricia Melzer 9780292713079
RRP: €30.93€28.69Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and gender of the body to global power relations among sexes,... -
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood 9780307741769
RRP: €20.17€9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307741769Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen 9780691232744
RRP: €28.50€21.90An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English-and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakersOld English is the language you think you know until you... -
Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbian Women During the Third Reich by Claudia Schoppmann
€67.08Through a series of interviews Schoppmann presents the life stories of ten lesbians who lived through the Nazi era. This book is a bold reminder of the "forgotten victims" of the Third Reich.Through a series of interviews Schoppmann presents the life... -
R. B. Cunninghame Graham and Scotland: Party, Prose and Political Aesthetic by Lachlan Gow Munro
€124.30R. B. Cunninghame Graham was a well-known and hugely influential figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish politics and literature. This book explores Graham's early political views, his time as a Member of Parliament, his disillusionment with... -
Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place by Neal Alexander
€124.30This monograph offers a decisive reappraisal of both the literary history and the literary geography of Anglophone modernism by focusing attention on poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. Where recent studies of late modernism tend to regard it as an... -
Twenty-First-Century Walter Scott: Times After Time by Caroline McCracken-Flesher
€125.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474429863Author Caroline McCracken-FlesherFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797-1830 by Franz J. Potter
RRP: €83.30€70.25The Gothic Chapbook, Bluebook, and Shilling Shocker, 1797-1835 breaks new ground surveying the origins of the gothic chapbook, its publishers and authors, in order to conclusively establish the impact these pamphlets had on the development of the gothic... -
Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives by Marco Bernini
RRP: €102.34€92.83Does literature merely represent cognitive processes, or can it enhance, parallel, or reassess the scientific study of the mind? Beckett and the Cognitive Method argues that Samuel Beckett's narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering mental... -
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth
RRP: €29.75€26.32"Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life."The Times A lavishly illustrated...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: €29.75€26.32Subtotal: -
Silent Witness: Racine's Non-verbal Annotations of Euripides by Susanna Phillippo
RRP: €30.93€26.93This is an examination of the influence of the plays of Euripides on the French tragedian Racine, gleaned from Racine's markings on the texts. In her study, Phillippo examines the way in which the creative processes linking the two writers may have... -
The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence by Benjamin D. Hagen
€132.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979275Author Benjamin D. HagenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
The Subject Medieval/Modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages by Peter Haidu
RRP: €38.08€34.05This ambitious book presents the most thorough historicist account to date of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation . Presenting the essence of the modern subject as resting... -
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: Invisible Presences by Molly Hoff
RRP: €32.71€27.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979606670Author Molly HoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea by John Plotz
RRP: €22.60€20.37A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels. What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned John Plotz at age eight, on the overlit and understaffed second floor of... -
Doris Lessing and the Forming of History by Kevin Brazil 9781474431484
RRP: €28.55€26.00Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyondThe death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and... -
The Sacred Wood by T.S. Eliot 9781513279695
RRP: €5.94€4.81The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920) is a collection of essays by T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot is primarily recognized as one of the twentieth century's leading English poets, he was also a prolific and highly influential literary critic... -
Shopping Mall by Matthew Newton
RRP: €11.89€9.13Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The mall near Mat thew Newton's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state's first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls... -
The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination by Lawrence Buell
RRP: €32.07€27.88Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of "ecocriticism". Written by one of the world's leading theorists in... -
Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice by Douglas Kerr 9780199674947
€83.47From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures, the ambitious historical fiction, the campaigns against injustice, and the Spiritualist writings of his later years, Conan Doyle... -
Literature and the Gods by Roberto Calasso 9780375725432
RRP: €22.61€16.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725432Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 225gDimensions(mm)... -
J.G. Ballard by Andrjez Gasiorek
RRP: €23.79€17.28This book offers a comprehensive account of the work of J.G. Ballard, regarded by several critics as one of the most significant fiction writers of recent times. Ballard's early science-fiction writing earned him plaudits as one of the most innovative...