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James Joyce and the Matter of Paris by Catherine Flynn
RRP: £29.99£25.94In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce's underexamined first exile in 1902-03, she shows... -
Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis by Marjorie Garber 9780300195439
RRP: £16.99£16.66Dream 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,... -
Crises of the Sentence by Jan Mieszkowski 9780226617190
£23.03There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse, it has rarely been an explicit object of inquiry, often taking a back seat to concepts such as the word,... -
De Rerum Natura, The Nature of Things: A Poetic Translation by Lucretius 9780520255937
RRP: £25.00£19.59This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. "De Rerum Natura" is Lucretius' majestic elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology in an epic that unfolds... -
The Casual Perfect by Lavinia Greenlaw
RRP: £9.99£6.90If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell's to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race by Valerie Traub 9780198820406
RRP: £40.99£40.49The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 of the most important scholars and writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of... -
The Theory of the Avant-Garde by Renato Poggioli 9780674882164
RRP: £39.95£32.30Convinced that all aspects of modern culture have been affected by avant-garde art, Renato Poggioli explores the relationship between the avant-garde and civilization. Historical parallels and modern examples from all the arts are used to show how the... -
Parody Professor Simon Dentith 9780415182218
RRP: £25.99£22.63Parody is part of all our lives. It occurs not only in literature, but also in everyday speech, in theatre and television, architecture and films. Drawing on examples from Aristophanes to The Simpsons, Simon Dentith explores: * the place of parody in... -
The Major Declamations, Volume I by Quintilian 9780674997400
RRP: £24.95£23.76Mock 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 behalf of... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui
RRP: £35.00£27.95An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or philosophical short sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this... -
Uzo Egonu: An African Artist in the West by Olu Oguibe 9780947753085
RRP: £16.95£16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947753085Author Olu OguibeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Third Text PublicationsPublisher Kala Press -
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Jean-Michel Rabate
RRP: £22.99£19.56This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabate takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how... -
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268201708
RRP: £33.00£30.06In March 1917, Book 3 the forces of revolutionary disintegration spread out from Petrograd all the way to the front lines of World War I, presaging Russia's collapse. One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize-winner... -
A Companion to Greek Mythology Ken Dowden (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781118785164
RRP: £37.95£33.90A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks' contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a... -
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky 9781478025382
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Fugitive Time, Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world. Through the lens of time, he charts the sensations and coursing thoughts that accompany desires for... -
What to Read and Why by Francine Prose 9780062397874
£15.04In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above... -
Marvel Black Widow: Secrets of a Super-spy by Melanie Scott
RRP: £18.99£13.48Who is Black Widow? Master spy? Avenger? S.H.I.E.L.D. agent?Natasha Romanoff is all this and much more. With a past cloaked in mystery and disinformation, it's hard to tell truth from deception. That's why Black Widow: Secrets of a Super-Spy is an... -
Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary by Prof. Steven Connor 9780631200529
RRP: £41.95£37.01In this completely revised and considerably expanded new edition, Steven Connor considers the recent work of the most influential postmodern theorists, including Lyotard and Jameson, and offers accounts both of the work of newly emerging theorists and... -
Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture by Rey Chow
RRP: £19.99£17.84How might the pornographic be associated with Brecht's and Benjamin's media theories? How are Foucault's and Deleuze's writings on visibilities "postcolonial"? What happens when Ranciere's discussions of art are juxtaposed with cultural anthropology?... -
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster 9780691234045
RRP: £12.99£9.81A 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... -
Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology by Eric S. Rabkin
RRP: £18.49£13.34An invaluable contribution to the serious study of science fiction as well as a highly entertaining collection, Science Fiction contains 27 chronologically-arranged stories and excerpts, ranging from such early classic works as Swift's Gulliver's Travels... -
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy by Heather Hirschfeld
£47.92The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new... -
Qur'?Nic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience by Leyla Ozgur Alhassen
RRP: £20.99£19.25Explores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur'an Explores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur'an Draws on narratology, rhetoric and Qur'anic studies to develop a new methodology Examines the interaction of... -
Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare by Paul Strohm
RRP: £27.99£24.14In this book Paul Strohm shifts his recognized talent for textual and cultural analysis to the later fifteenth century, arguing that England experienced its own "pre-Machiavellian" moment between 1450 and 1485. These turbulent decades encouraged new... -
Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History by David Cowart 9780820340630
£25.75Thomas Pynchon helped pioneer the postmodern aesthetic. His formidable body of work challenges readers to think and perceive in ways that anticipate with humor, insight, and cogency much that has emerged in the field of literary theory over the past few... -
True-love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing by Allen Grossman
RRP: £28.00£27.39"True-Love" is the fulfillment of revered poet-critic Allen Grossman's long service to poetry in the interests of humanity. Poetry's singular mission is to bind love and truth together - love that desires the beloved's continued life, knotted with the... -
Method of Medicine: v. III, Bks. 10-14 by Galen
RRP: £24.95£23.76Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner,... -
The ""Wisdom"" of Pierre Charron: An Original and Orthodox Code of Morality by Jean Daniel Charron 9780807890349
RRP: £29.95£28.46This book is a reevaluation and a reinterpretation of Pierre Charron (1541-1603) - in particular La Sagesse - and of the impact of his writings. Jean Daniel Charron sheds new light upon this great figure in French literature, and argues that he should be... -
Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England by Roger D. Lund
RRP: £43.99£38.74Arguing for the importance of wit beyond its use as a literary device, Roger D. Lund outlines the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century England struggled to define an appropriate role for wit in the public sphere. He traces its... -
Ted Hughes by Terry Gifford 9780415311892
RRP: £37.99£33.38For the first time, one volume surveys the life, works and critical reputation of one of the most significant British writers of the twentieth-century: Ted Hughes. This accessible guide to Hughes' writing provides a rich exploration of the complete... -
Literature or Life by Jorge Semprun 9780140266245
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140266245Author Jorge SemprunFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Myth by Laurence Coupe
RRP: £19.99£17.69Laurence Coupe offers students a comprehensive overview of the development of myth, showing how mythic themes, structures and symbols persist in literature and entertainment today. This introductory volume:illustrates the relation between myth, culture... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 by Julia Swindells 9780198816454
RRP: £40.99£40.49The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 - a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has declined by Joulia Smortchkova
RRP: £6.50£6.21Reasoning is the critical thinking skill concerned with the production of arguments: making them coherent, consistent, and well-supported; and responding to opposing positions where necessary. The Better Angels of Our Nature offers a step-by-step class... -
How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters by Karl Steel
RRP: £20.99£18.37From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had... -
Literary Geography by Sheila Hones
RRP: £19.99£17.96Literary 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Philip Swanson
RRP: £24.99£21.18Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Latin America's most internationally famous and successful author, and a winner of the Nobel Prize. His oeuvre of great modern novels includes One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His name has become... -
Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office: A Guide to their Organization and Terminology by Andrew Hughes 9780802076694
RRP: £43.00£38.01Many books discuss the theology and doctrine of the medieval liturgy: there is no dearth of information on the history of the liturgy, the structure and development of individual services, and there is much discussion of specific texts, chants, and... -
The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor by B.R. Smith
RRP: £36.00£35.23We know how a Shakespeare play sounds when performed today, but what would listeners have heard within the wooden "O" of the Globe Theater in 1599? What sounds would have filled the air in early modern England, and what would these sounds have meant to... -
A Reading of The Tale of Genji by Royall Tyler 9780994571533
RRP: £15.00£13.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994571533Author Royall TylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Blue-Tongue BooksPublisher Blue-Tongue BooksWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...