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The Book On The Bookshelf by Henry Petroski 9780375706394
RRP: £15.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706394Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry by Lorrie Goldensohn 9780231076630
RRP: £30.00£23.29This study charts the evolution of Bishop's poetry, aided by newly discovered diaries, previously unpublished work and early drafts. It focuses on the poet's 20-year residence in Brazil, and attempts to provide a new understanding of Bishop's treatment... -
The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Nicola J. Watson 9780198883548
RRP: £20.00£17.15The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been... -
Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus by Jennifer R. March
RRP: £32.99£29.98Oedipus Tyrannus by the great tragedian Sophocles is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek literature. The play has always been admired for the tight unity of its plot; every bit of every scene counts towards the dramatic effect. The action is... -
Gramsci, Language, and Translation by Peter Ives 9780739118603
RRP: £45.00£39.49This anthology brings together key articles translated into English for the first time from Italian debates concerning Antonio Gramsci's writings on language and translation as central to his entire social and political thought. It includes recent... -
A Derrida Dictionary by Niall Lucy 9780631218432
RRP: £33.95£29.98This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida's complex and extensive works. This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida's complex and extensive works.From 'aporia' to 'yes', the Dictionary suggests ways into Derrida that show what is at... -
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry by Kerry Larson
RRP: £22.99£19.56This Companion is the first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to American poetry of the nineteenth century. It covers a wide variety of authors, many of whom are currently being rediscovered. A number of anthologies in the recent past have... -
Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities by Stephen Siperstein
RRP: £37.99£33.38Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue. This important book highlights how humanities disciplines can mobilize the creative and critical power of students, teachers, and communities to confront climate change. The book is divided... -
Richard Coer de Lyon by Peter Larkin
RRP: £22.00£18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580442015Author Peter LarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Medieval Institute PublicationsPublisher Medieval Institute Publications -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Dr. Jane Milling
£30.16Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s equips readers with a fresh assessment of the theatre and principle playwrights and plays from a decade when political and economic forces were changing society dramatically. It offers a broad survey of the context... -
Exemplary Spenser: Visual and Poetic Pedagogy in The Faerie Queene by Jane Grogan 9781138376328
RRP: £47.99£41.81Exemplary Spenser analyses the didactic poetics of The Faerie Queene, renewing attention to its avowed attempt to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" and examining how Spenser mobilises his pedagogic concerns through... -
The Uses of Literature: Essays by Italo Calvino 9780156932509
RRP: £20.99£15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156932509Author Italo CalvinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books -
Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £20.99£18.37Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism,... -
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 2: 1558-1660 by Patrick Cheney 9780198859161
RRP: £47.99£47.07The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering... -
Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling by Erica Fretwell
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how... -
Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film by Yuri Tynianov
RRP: £28.99£28.55Yuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also included Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson. Tynianov developed a groundbreaking conceptualization of literature as a system within-and... -
Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading by Paul Saenger
RRP: £39.00£34.52Reading, like any human activity, has a history. Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. Ancient reading was usually oral, either aloud, in groups, or individually, in a muffled voice. The text format in which thought has been presented to... -
German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust: Complicity and Gender in the Second World War by Elisabeth Krimmer
RRP: £33.99£30.33This important study examines women's life writing about the Second World War and the Holocaust, such as memoirs, diaries, docunovels, and autobiographically inspired fiction. Through a historical and literary study of the complex relationship between... -
The Book of Books: Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to Milton by Thomas Fulton
RRP: £62.00£53.96Just as the Reformation was a movement of intertwined theological and political aims, many individual authors of the time shifted back and forth between biblical interpretation and political writing. Two foundational figures in the history of the... -
Shakespeare and Textual Theory by Prof. Suzanne Gossett
RRP: £22.99£20.11There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the stage, has been revised, augmented and emended since Shakespeare's lifetime. An essential resource for the... -
Books of the Beast: New Edition by Timothy D'Arch Smith
RRP: £12.99£8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869928179Author Timothy d'Arch SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 215g -
John Adair: Fundamentals of Leadership by J. Gosling 9780230002050
RRP: £89.99£89.87John Adair is one of the most important figures on leadership thought and practice. This book shows the depth of his influence and offers fresh perspectives on his ideas. Anyone convinced that leadership is crucial to improved performance, but who is... -
Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics by Hans Robert Jauss 9780816610068
RRP: £21.99£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816610068Author Hans Robert JaussFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams)... -
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony by Jill Jarvis
RRP: £21.99£19.19The magnitude of the legal violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria (1830-1962) is such that only aesthetic works have been able to register its enduring effects. In Decolonizing Memory Jill Jarvis examines the power of literature... -
The Poet's Handbook by Judson Jerome 9781582971360
RRP: £12.79£12.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582971360Author Judson JeromeFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Penguin Publishing GroupPublisher Penguin Publishing GroupWeight(grams)... -
William Shakespeare's King Lear: A Sourcebook by Grace Ioppolo
RRP: £19.99£17.69This sourcebook clearly introduces the many critical issues surrounding this complex and haunting play. Ioppolo examines sources, from Holinshed to Spencer, and in the Interpretations section looks at critical readings and notable performances of the... -
Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock
£90.28Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of these works to appear for more than half a century... -
Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives by Angelika Neuwirth
RRP: £19.99£13.75Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives introduces the work of twenty-nine pivotal authors from the Arab world writing in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew. Organised around the central themes of memory, place and gender, each of which is discussed... -
Figures of Catastrophe: The Condition of Culture Novel by Francis Mulhern
RRP: £16.99£12.08The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of culture novel. Reading across and against the grain of received patterns of literary association, tracing a... -
Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change by Ted Underwood
RRP: £24.00£23.03Just as a traveler crossing a continent won't sense the curvature of the earth, one lifetime of reading can't grasp the largest patterns organizing literary history. This is the guiding premise behind Distant Horizons, which uses the scope of data newly... -
A New History of Early English Drama by John D. Cox 9780231102438
RRP: £45.00£35.72For many years the study of pre-seventeenth-century English drama was shaped largely by an understanding that everything written revolved around the individual author, either as part of the tradition that prepared the way for Shakespeare or as part of... -
Spenserian Allegory and Elizabethan Biblical Exegesis: A Context for <i>the Faerie Queene</I> by Margaret Christian 9781526139504
RRP: £25.00£17.92Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene 'will seeme displeasaunt' to those who would 'rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large'. This is the first... -
Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579): An Analyzed Facsimile Edition by Ken Borris
RRP: £90.00£64.42Spenser's extraordinary Shepheardes Calender as first printed in 1579 is arguably the seminal book of the Elizabethan literary renaissance. This volume reassesses it as a material text in relation to book history, and provides the first clearly detailed... -
Jane Austen, Early and Late by Freya Johnston
RRP: £20.00£15.89A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent... -
The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison by Mikita Brottman 9780062384348
RRP: £18.99£13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062384348Author Mikita BrottmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Tennyson by Christopher Ricks 9780333486559
RRP: £44.99£44.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Revival: Rumi, Poet and Mystic, 1207-1273 (1950): Selections from his Writings, Translated from the Persian with Introduction and Notes by Maulana Jala l al-Di n Ru mi
RRP: £36.99£32.53To the English reader the mysticism of Rumi opens a new world of spiritual and poetical experience. "God is One but religions are many" runs the Sufi teaching; and the English reader can here enlarge his experience by apprehending the mystic intuition of... -
Marvel Vault by Peter Sanderson
RRP: £29.99£24.66Ten years after its initial successful publication, The MarvelVault is due for an update. New text and images chroniclehow Marvel has channelled its singular storytelling into ablockbuster movie studio, even as it has stayed true to itshallowed roots in... -
Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays by Giselle Liza Anatol 9780313320675
£55.96J. K. Rowling achieved astounding commercial success with her series of novels about Harry Potter, the boy-wizard who finds out about his magical powers on the morning of his eleventh birthday. The books' incredible popularity, and the subsequent... -
The Arden Shakespeare Miscellany by Jane Armstrong
RRP: £17.99£17.16An ideal reference companion for students and enthusiasts of Shakespeare, this informative and entertaining Miscellany gives a wealth of contextual and biographical information to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of his work. There is an entry...