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Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing by Deborah Levy 9781635572247
RRP: $33.13$22.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572247Author Deborah LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)... -
William Blake and Religion: A New Critical View by Magnus Ankarsjo 9780786445592
RRP: $56.53$46.90Over the last ten years the field of Blake studies has profited from new discoveries about the life of Blake and his writings. This book examines the effect that Blake's mother's recently discovered Moravianism has had on our understanding of his poetry,... -
Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times by Gabriele Schwab 9780231211611
RRP: $54.60$42.51Samuel Beckett's work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett's characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure,... -
Love and Poetry in the Middle East: Love and Literature from Antiquity to the Present by Atef Alshaer 9780755640980
$57.23Love has been an important trope in the literature of the region we now call the Middle East, from ancient times to modern. This book analyses love poetry in various ancient and contemporary languages of the Middle East, including Akkadian, ancient... -
A Study of George Orwell: The Man and His Works by Christopher Hollis
RRP: $21.43$18.29Author Christopher Hollis knew George Orwell personally during his schooldays at Eton, afterwards in Burma, and at the end of his life. His study of Orwell's books is therefore illuminated by some anecdotes of reminiscence. However, it is important to... -
The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud by Maud Ellmann 9780521681094
RRP: $77.98$70.57One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the... -
The Ash Wednesday Supper: A New Translation by Giordano Bruno 9781487521400
RRP: $64.35$55.79Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and 1585. It presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends... -
The Importance of Being Poirot by Jeremy Black
RRP: $31.20$26.99Written by the renowned British historian who has been described as both utterly thorough and humanely delicate, Jeremy Black offers a guided tour through the mind of Agatha Christie and life during the Great World Wars. His incomparable treatment of... -
Mann: Doctor Faustus by Michael Beddow 9780521375924
RRP: $44.83$39.21In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. Through the figures of the solitary avant-garde composer, Adrian Leverkuhn, and his often bemused... -
The Global Eighteenth Century by Felicity A. Nussbaum
RRP: $49.73$48.34Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a "long eighteenth century," one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. In The Global Eighteenth Century, editor Felicity Nussbaum and the contributing authors take this idea one step further,... -
Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer 9780814332672
RRP: $42.80$30.65Despite the availability of several eloquent gender studies of fairy tales, a popular reference on men and fairy tales has so far been nonexistent. ""Brothers and Beasts"" offers a new perspective by allowing twenty-three male writers... -
Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home by Emma Whipday
RRP: $66.28$59.14Domestic tragedy was an innovative genre, suggesting that the lives and sufferings of ordinary people were worthy of the dramatic scope of tragedy. In this compelling study, Whipday revises the narrative of Shakespeare's plays to show how this genre,... -
The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France by Tom Conley 9780816674480
RRP: $42.88$37.42The Self-Made Map argues that during the Renaissance in France a "new cartographic impulse" affected both the "graphic and imaginary forms of literature." In this wide-ranging and fascinating work, Tom Conley demonstrates that as new maps were plotted... -
Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse The Younger by Malaclypse The Younger 9781008993679
RRP: $44.83$39.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008993679Author Malaclypse The YoungerFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g -
Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal by Marie Mulvey-Roberts 9781526127181
RRP: $38.98$34.34Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, Dangerous bodies reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation,... -
100 Objects of Doctor Who by Phillip Bates 9781913637484
$19.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913637484Author Philip BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Candy Jar BooksPublisher Candy Jar Books -
Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature by Teresa N Washington 9780991073054
RRP: $86.74$78.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Doctor Joe Bell: Model for Sherlock Holmes by Ely Liebow 9780879721985
RRP: $52.55$36.39It is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes, wrote Arthur Conan Doyle to his former professor and mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in 1892. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown,... -
Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe by Ian Watt 9780521585644
RRP: $52.63$44.46In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don Quixote and Don Juan - all written within a forty-year... -
The Medieval Welsh Englynion y Beddau: The 'Stanzas of the Graves', or 'Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain', attributed to Taliesin by Patrick Sims-Williams 9781843847069
RRP: $214.50$204.24Edition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry. The "Stanzas of the Graves" or "Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain", attributed to the legendary poet Taliesin, describe ancient heroes' burial places. Like the "Triads of... -
Hatred and Forgiveness by Julia Kristeva 9780231143257
RRP: $48.75$38.20Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and... -
What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Fantasy and SF by Jo Walton 9781472111616
$29.25Jo Walton is an award-winning author of, inveterate reader of, and chronic re-reader of science fiction and fantasy books. What Makes This Book So Great? is a selection of the best of her musings about her prodigious reading habit. Jo Walton's many... -
Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric by Arthur F. Marotti 9780801482380
RRP: $60.45$54.13The last of the literary genres to be incorporated into print culture, verse in the English Renaissance not only was published in anthologies, pamphlets, and folio editions, it was also circulated in manuscript. In this ground-breaking historical and... -
The Language Poets Use by Winifred Nowottny 9780485120097
$81.98Mrs Nowottny's chief aim in this 'valuable book which could serve as a useful introduction to practical criticism' (Review of English Studies) is to inquire as to what it is that makes the language of poetry poetic. The book grows out of the leading... -
Postmodernism: A Reader by Patricia Waugh 9780340573815
$78.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Greenery: Ecocritical Readings of Late Medieval English Literature by Gillian Rudd 9780719072499
RRP: $38.98$34.34Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called 'green' terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world,... -
Hoelderlin's Philosophy of Nature by Rochelle Tobias
RRP: $40.93$37.54The work of the decidedly philosophical poet Friedrich Holderlin has gained renewed urgency in its emphasis on the forces of nature that produce life and at the same time threaten to devour it. This volume brings Holderlin into dialogue with pre-Socratic... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by John O'Connor
$18.64Fully updated to meet the needs of the 2010 GCSE English specifications. Exclusive awarding-body specific support to help students realise their full potential. The most accessible texts with supportive notes, activities and advice to engage students. ... -
Arthur in the Celtic Languages: The Arthurian Legend in Celtic Literatures and Traditions by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
RRP: $146.25$118.83This is the first comprehensive authoritative survey of Arthurian literature and traditions in the Celtic languages of Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. With contributions by leading and emerging specialists in the field, the volume... -
Charles Dickens's Bleak House: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Janice M. Allan 9780415247733
RRP: $38.98$34.50With its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) is considered by many critics to be Dickens's most remarkable novel. Janice Allan:introduces the contextual issues that most directly influenced Dickens's... -
Literary Geography by Sheila Hones
RRP: $38.98$34.50Literary Geography provides an introduction to work in the field, making the interdiscipline accessible and visible to students and academics working in literary studies and human geography, as well as related fields such as the geohumanities, place... -
Sexuality by Joseph Bristow
RRP: $44.83$39.31Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. This fully updated second edition includes: a... -
The Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture by Sarah Bilston
RRP: $63.38$61.58A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women Literature has, from the start of the nineteenth century, cast the suburbs as dull, vulgar, and unimaginative margins where,... -
Hygiene, Volume II: Books 5-6. Thrasybulus. on Exercise with a Small Ball by Galen
RRP: $48.65$45.61Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, medical historian, theoretician, and practitioner who wrote forcefully and prolifically on an astonishing range of subjects and whose... -
Under the Same Moon: Edward Thomas and the English Lyric by Edna Longley 9781911253143
RRP: $48.75$35.14A hundred years ago Edward Thomas was killed in the Battle of Arras (April 1917). The reputation of his poetry has never been higher. Edna Longley has already edited Thomas's poems and prose. She now marks his centenary, and adds to the growing field of... -
Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis by Marjorie Garber 9780300195439
RRP: $33.13$32.49Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination-one's deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream becomes,... -
What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern by Jed Rasula
RRP: $68.25$44.30On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influenceWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a... -
Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide by Nick Groom
RRP: $17.53$13.07Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and... -
Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays by Laurie Maguire 9780631229858
RRP: $66.20$58.46This engaging book draws on all of Shakespearea s plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life. * Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespearea s plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the... -
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel 9781596431317
$77.03Drawing Words and Writing Pictures is a course on comics creation - for college classes or for independent study - that centres on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic.With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the...