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Memory by Anne Whitehead 9780415402736
RRP: €27.36€23.99The concept of 'memory' has given rise to some of the most exciting new directions in contemporary theory. In this much-needed guide to a burgeoning field of a study, Anne Whitehead:presents a history of the concept of 'memory' and its uses, encompassing... -
Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare by Paul Strohm
RRP: €33.31€28.73In 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... -
Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance by Joseph Roach
RRP: €35.70€27.72The colorful handmade costumes of beads and feathers swirl frenetically, as the Mardi Gras Indians dance through the streets of New Orleans in remembrance of a widely disputed cultural heritage. Iroquois Indians visit London in the early part of the... -
Superman is an Arab: On God, Marriage, Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions by Joumana Haddad 9781908906090
RRP: €10.70€7.38This is not a manifesto against men in general. Nor is it a manifesto against Arab men in particular. It is, however, a howl in the face of a particular species of men: the macho species, Supermen, as they like to envision themselves. But Superman is a... -
En Abime: Listening, Reading, Writing: An Archival Fiction by Daniela Cascella 9781780994031
RRP: €11.89€10.22En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience, and contributes with previously... -
Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
RRP: €22.00€18.94For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that question on its head to argue that opinion talk is the... -
The <I>Trojan Epic</I>: <I>Posthomerica</I> by Quintus of Smyrna
RRP: €31.54€30.59Composed in the third century A.D., the Trojan Epic is the earliest surviving literary evidence for many of the traditions of the Trojan War passed down from ancient Greece. Also known as the Posthomerica, or "sequel to Homer," the Trojan... -
Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego by Christopher Hogarth
RRP: €148.75€128.35Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego examines the corpus of writing of two contemporary female authors. Both writers are of African descent, live in Europe and write about lives across Europe... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 by Julia Swindells 9780198816454
RRP: €48.78€48.18The 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... -
Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings by Vanessa Joosen 9780814334522
RRP: €39.21€34.84In Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings Vanessa Joosen broadens the traditional concept of intertextuality to include academic texts. With three key texts... -
Shakespeare - King Lear by Susan Bruce
€30.29Of the huge body of critical writing devoted to Shakespeare's plays, by far the greatest proportion is concerned with the tragedies - and, for students of English literature, a familiarity with the great tragedies remains a necessity. To deal with such... -
Everything Passes by Gabriel Josipovici 9781857548501
RRP: €15.46€10.64'Everything passes. The good and the bad. The joy and the sorrow. Everything passes. Or does it?' At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the painter Jan Gossaert paints Danae, upon whom Jupiter descends in a shower of gold, as a plump nubile maiden,... -
Approaching the Hunger Games Trilogy: A Literary and Cultural Analysis by Tom Henthorne 9780786468645
RRP: €26.17€21.38This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better understand both its significance and its appeal. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the trilogy, drawing from literary studies,... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama by Carolyn Williams 9781107095939
RRP: €54.74€23.40This newly commissioned series of essays by leading scholars is the first volume to offer both an overview of the field and also current emerging critical views on the history, form, and influence of English melodrama. Authoritative voices provide an... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Philip Swanson
RRP: €29.74€25.20Gabriel 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... -
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami 9780451494641
RRP: €33.32€15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451494641Author Haruki MurakamiFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 217mm *... -
The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other Fragments by Hesiod
RRP: €29.69€29.20Antiquity's original didactic poet.Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been considered a younger contemporary of Homer.The first... -
English SATs Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Targeted Skills and Test Practice for Year 5: York Notes for KS2 by Kate Woodford
RRP: €7.74€6.10Suitable for ages 9 and 10 (Year 5) Provides targeted questions for grammar, punctuation and spelling Ideal for home learning and additional practice outside of the classroom Answers included in the back of the book Remember, revise and practise This... -
The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan by Kevin J. H. Dettmar 9780521714945
RRP: €27.36€23.28A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative... -
NET Bible Full-Notes Edition [Teal] by Thomas Nelson 9780785225096
RRP: €77.35€63.21The most translator notes in any Bible to help you clearly understand how the Bible was translated. Ever feel lost in translation? With the NET Full-notes Edition of the Holy Bible, you don't need to be. Modern readers can find it challenging to connect... -
Brecht on Art and Politics by Bertolt Brecht 9780413773531
€23.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413773531Author Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC -
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: A Reader by Kiernan Ryan 9780340614587
€31.45New Historicism and Cultural Materialism have become two of the most powerful and appealing movements in modern criticism. Their conquest of Renaissance studies has escalated into global colonialisation of English and American literary history. A wealth... -
The Classic Novel: From Page to Screen by Erica Sheen 9780719052316
RRP: €23.79€22.32This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen.. An emerging area of interest - the relationship between film and literature and the way cinema and television have translated classic novels... -
Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers by Annette Dauphin Simon
RRP: €23.80€21.72A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems-a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines-illustrated with 110 full-color photographs.Easy to create and share online, spine poems-also known as collage poems... -
Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos by Outhine Bounyavong 9780295977362
RRP: €16.65€14.98Outhine Bounyavong is one of the most prominent contemporary writers in Laos. His stories are animated with Laotian virtues of simplicity, compassion, respect for age, and other village mores; they breathe with a gentleness that is fresh and distinctive... -
Earth by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: €11.89€9.13Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a... -
Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels by Hsu-Ming Teo
RRP: €33.31€28.73The Sheik-E. M. Hull's best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino-kindled "sheik fever" across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically "Oriental" swept through fashion, film, and... -
Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life by Gerard Kilroy 9781138089075
RRP: €52.35€46.22Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life is the response, at long last, to Evelyn Waugh's call, in 1935, for a 'scholarly biography' to replace Richard Simpson's Edmund Campion (1867). Whereas early accounts of his life focused on the execution of the Jesuit... -
Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture by Saree Makdisi
RRP: €33.32€32.59The central argument of Edward Said's Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that premise... -
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
RRP: €14.27€13.02Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king of... -
Essays on Thomas Mann by Georg Lukacs 9780850362381
RRP: €15.41€13.55Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780850362381Author Georg LukacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd -
The Cambridge Introduction to Edith Wharton by Pamela Knights 9780521687195
RRP: €23.79€20.38Born in New York into a world of wealth and privilege, and writing with unique insight into the lives of the rich and fashionable, Edith Wharton was a best-seller in her time, and is now, again, one of the most widely read American authors. This book... -
The Well-Laden Ship by Egbert of Liege 9780674051270
RRP: €35.64€28.16The Well-Laden Ship (Fecunda ratis) is an early eleventh-century Latin poem composed of ancient and medieval proverbs, fables, and folktales. Compiled by Egbert of Liege, it was planned as a first reader for beginning students. This makes it one of the... -
Literature and Social Media by Bronwen Thomas
RRP: €44.02€38.71From Instapoetry to BookTube, contemporary literary cultures and practices are increasingly intertwined with social media. In this lively and wide-ranging study, Bronwen Thomas explores how social media provides new ways of connecting with and... -
Shakespeare's Wordplay by Professor M. M. Mahood
RRP: €45.21€39.72`Professor Mahood's book has established itself as a classic in the field, not so much because of the ingenuity with which she reads Shakespeare's quibbles, but because her elucidation of pun and wordplay is intelligently related both to textual readings... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Vera J. Camden
RRP: €28.55€24.24The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis explains the link between literature and psychoanalysis for students, critics and teachers. It offers a twenty-first century resource for defining and analyzing the psychoanalytic dimensions of... -
Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine by Sweetha Saji 9781032163505
RRP: €23.79€21.05This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualise the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a... -
A Reader's Guide to Yeats's A Vision by Neil Mann
€47.25W. B. Yeats is one of the most important writers in English of the twentieth century, and the system of A Vision is generally recognized as fundamental to the power and achievement of his later poetry. Yet this strange mixture of esoteric geometry, lunar... -
Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy: A Limping Lady for Stephen Heyworth by T. E. Franklinos 9780198908111
RRP: €107.10€97.56This volume brings together eleven chapters on the genre of Latin elegy by leading scholars in the field. Latin elegy is typically thought to have flourished for a brief period at Rome between c. 40 BC and the early decades of the first century AD; it... -
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 by Mark Greif 9780691146393
RRP: €41.65€33.49In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the...