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Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science by Robert Crawford 9780199258123
RRP: $134.55$100.54A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists, Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science demonstrates through its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. Crossing... -
The Idiot by F. M. Dostoevsky
RRP: $37.05$23.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702242Author Fyodor DostoevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
H. P. Lovecraft: An Introduction to His Life and Writings by Arthur S Koki 9781614983910
RRP: $48.75$42.16Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Book to Come by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: $46.78$40.64During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and... -
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas by Armann Jakobsson
RRP: $77.98$69.15The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies... -
Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds by Lubomir Dolezel
RRP: $58.50$52.55"The universe of possible worlds is constantly expanding and diversifying thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and hands. Literary fiction is probably the most active experimental laboratory of the world-constructing... -
William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems by William Cowper 9780582087279
RRP: $105.28$100.54Having previously suffered neglect as a result of Pope's dominance of the period, William Cowper (1731-1800) has now become a far more important figure in eighteenth-century literature. Following the successful format of the series, Professor Sambrook's... -
The Essential Odyssey by Homer
RRP: $23.38$19.05This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Sheila Murnaghan's... -
Jane Austen's Style: Narrative Economy and the Novel's Growth by Anne Toner 9781108439404
RRP: $46.78$39.72Jane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring that economy stylistically and structurally, this book traces Austen's keen interest in narrative form. Anne... -
How to Do Things with Fictions by Joshua Landy 9780195188561
RRP: $167.70$127.78Why did Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why do we root for criminal heroes? In mummy movies, why is the skeptic always the first to go? Why don't stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits any more? Why is... -
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by Talia Schaffer
RRP: $81.90$65.21What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novelIn Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons... -
The Postcolonial Unconscious by Neil Lazarus 9780521186261
RRP: $52.63$44.46The Postcolonial Unconscious is a major attempt to reconstruct the whole field of postcolonial studies. In this magisterial and, at times, polemical study, Neil Lazarus argues that the key critical concepts that form the very foundation of the field need... -
The Postmodern by Simon Malpas
RRP: $38.98$34.50Simon Malpas investigates the theories and definitions of postmodernism and postmodernity, and explores their impact in such areas as identity, history, art, literature and culture. In attempting to map the different forms of the postmodern, and the... -
Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero by Roy Schwartz 9781476662909
RRP: $56.53$47.68Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he's Jewish! Introduced in June 1938, the Man of Steel was created by two Jewish teens, Jerry Siegel, the son of immigrants from Eastern... -
The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone by Susan Paterson Glover
RRP: $77.98$68.37Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an... -
Beowulf-A Poem by Andrew Scheil
RRP: $31.10$30.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641893916Author Andrew ScheilFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House by Isabel Hofmeyr
RRP: $35.08$31.01In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dockside customs officials... -
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde by Alyce Mahon 9780691141619
RRP: $87.75$74.74How 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 Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology by Andrew Hass 9780199544486
$85.47The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology is a defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology. The volume... -
Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times by Tobias Menely 9780271078731
RRP: $54.50$47.78Few 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel: From 1600 to the Present by Harriet S. Turner
RRP: $50.68$42.88The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of... -
Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art by Marina van Zuylen 9780801489860
RRP: $54.58$47.07"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence.... Those readers who have brushed against the dangers of the... -
Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg
RRP: $35.08$31.28Electronic Literature considers new forms and genres of writing that exploit the capabilities of computers and networks - literature that would not be possible without the contemporary digital context. In this book, Rettberg places the most significant... -
Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: $17.53$11.86Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected... -
The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions by John M Bowers
RRP: $34.13$28.28When Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400, his massive project, the Canterbury Tales, lay unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five works that aim to fill in the gaps in this incomplete masterpiece. The pieces presented here date from the fifteenth... -
Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present by Michael Sheringham 9780199566983
RRP: $118.95$118.01In the last twenty years the concept of the quotidien , or the everyday, has been prominent in contemporary French culture and in British and American cultural studies. This book provides the first comprehensive analytical survey of the whole field of... -
The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin by Francis O'Gorman 9781107674240
RRP: $46.78$39.72John Ruskin (1819-1900), one of the leading literary, aesthetic and intellectual figures of the middle and late Victorian period, and a significant influence on writers from Tolstoy to Proust, has established his claim as a major writer of English prose... -
Portraits of Shakespeare by Katherine Duncan-Jones
RRP: $29.23$23.13Within Shakespeare's lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare's appearance is mysterious. Why is it so difficult to find images... -
Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager by Euripides
RRP: $48.65$45.61Lost works by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BC survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two... -
Reading William Blake by Saree Makdisi
RRP: $31.18$27.11William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the most original and influential figures of the Romantic Age, known for his work as an artist, poet and printmaker. Grounding his ideas both in close reading and in the latest scholarship, Saree Makdisi offers an... -
Fantasy Cinema - Impossible Worlds on Screen by David Butler 9781906660161
RRP: $35.08$29.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906660161Author David ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990 by Tadeusz Kantor
RRP: $66.30$53.37Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked him with such influential directors as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Brecht, and... -
The Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva District by Elias Lonnrot
RRP: $58.40$46.14The national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Francis Magoun has used prose, printed line for... -
The Major Declamations, Volume III by Quintilian 9780674997424
RRP: $48.65$45.61Mock trial-Roman style.The Major Declamations stand out for their unique contribution to our understanding of the final stage in Greco-Roman rhetorical training. These exercises, in which students learned how to compose and deliver speeches on... -
A Companion to Malory by Elizabeth Archibald 9780859915205
RRP: $48.73$32.72Malory's Morte Darthur - text, history and reception - expertly appraised by international scholars. This collection of original essays by an international group of distinguished medievalists provides a comprehensive introduction to the great work of... -
The Downward Journey or the Tyrant: Zeus Catechized - Zeus Rants by Lucian
RRP: $48.65$47.85Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and ... -
Athenaeus: The Learned Banqueters: v. 3: Books VI-VII by S. Douglas Olson
RRP: $48.65$45.61Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of ... -
Rimbaud: The Cost of Genius by Neal Oxenhandler 9780814256749
$41.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256749Author Neal OxenhandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 272g -
The Cambridge Companion to Balzac by Owen Heathcote
RRP: $46.78$39.72One of the founders of literary realism and the serial novel, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a prolific writer who produced more than a hundred novels, plays and short stories during his career. With its dramatic plots and memorable characters,... -
The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE by Robert Ford Campany 9780674247802
RRP: $50.60$40.25Winner of the Stanislas Julien PrizeWinner of the Joseph Levenson Prize for Scholarship on Pre-1900 ChinaDreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert...