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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1) by Aleksandr Pushkin
RRP: $46.20$36.94When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov's friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a... -
The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice: A Tiny Homeric Epic by A E Stallings 9781589881426
RRP: $44.08$39.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881426Author A E StallingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 234g -
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: A Reader by Kiernan Ryan 9780340614587
$55.50New 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: $41.98$39.40This 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... -
Richard Coer de Lyon by Peter Larkin
RRP: $46.20$38.60Apologies 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 -
Outside the Anthropological Machine: Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies by Chiara Mengozzi
RRP: $83.98$73.63In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species' arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our... -
A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990 by Tadeusz Kantor
RRP: $71.40$57.48Polish 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... -
Literature and Social Media Bronwen Thomas 9780415789097
RRP: $77.68$68.31From 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... -
The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment by Andrew S. Curran
$61.17This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues,... -
Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine Sweetha Saji (Mount Carmel College) 9781032163505
RRP: $41.98$38.43This 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 Companion to the Gothic David Punter 9780631231998
RRP: $86.00$76.80This Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of... -
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience by Martin Dubois
RRP: $65.08$39.98This nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins's writing. By exploring the shifting way in which Hopkins imagines religious belief in individual history, Martin Dubois contests established... -
A Reader's Guide to Yeats's A Vision by Neil Mann
$83.39W. 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: $189.00$172.16This 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... -
Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List by Weldon Thornton 9780807840894
$127.26This comprehensive list of allusions found in James Joyce's modern classic, ""Ulysses"", is in itself a classic and is a feat of literary scholarship of unprecedented magnitude. In brief, this book is a copiously annotated list of... -
The Rise of the Arabic Book by Beatrice Gruendler
RRP: $75.50$61.30The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.During the thirteenth century, Europe's largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had... -
Earth by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: $20.98$16.32Object 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... -
Shakespeare and Feminist Theory by Marianne Novy 9781472567062
RRP: $54.58$51.03Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist... -
Shelley's Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song: 2021 Bysshe Inigo Coffey 9781837644308
RRP: $62.98$57.06Shortlisted for the University English Book Prize 2022Shelley's Broken World is a provocative and profound reassessment of Shelley's poetic art and thought. Bysshe Inigo Coffey returns to a peculiarity of Shelley's expressive repertoire first noticed by... -
Mushroom by Dr. Sara Rich
RRP: $20.98$16.32Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating... -
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry by Kerry Larson
RRP: $48.28$41.08This 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... -
The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley 9780877285168
RRP: $33.58$26.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877285168Author Aleister CrowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 16mm -
A Room of One's Own (Hero Classics) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $18.88$14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800315389Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll 9780198861508
RRP: $12.58$9.72The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day. Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There was first published in December 1871 (dated 1872). Although Carroll intended Looking-Glass to be a follow-up... -
The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare by Robert Shaughnessy 9780415275408
RRP: $77.68$69.15Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans.In this friendly, structured guide, Robert... -
History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic by Lucie Armitt 9780708320433
RRP: $41.98$32.49Why, at a time when the majority of us no longer believe in ghosts, demons or the occult, does Gothic continue to have such a strong grasp upon literature, cinema and popular culture? This book answers the question by exploring some of the ways in which... -
The Uses of Literature: Essays by Italo Calvino 9780156932509
RRP: $44.08$30.58Apologies 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 -
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni by Virginia C. Fowler 9780878055876
RRP: $52.40$49.79Out of this collection of twenty-two interviews spanning two decades rises the distinctive voice of ""the princess of black poetry."" Nikki Giovanni entered the literary world at the height of the Black Arts Movement and quickly... -
Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law by Joseph R. Slaughter 9780823228188
RRP: $73.50$65.90In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature" and international human rights law are related phenomena... -
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 2: 1558-1660 by Patrick Cheney 9780198859161
RRP: $100.78$98.85The 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... -
Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. Kim 9780520268128
RRP: $42.00$33.37In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce... -
Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading by Paul Saenger
RRP: $81.90$72.49Reading, 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin by Francis O'Gorman 9781107674240
RRP: $50.38$43.47John 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... -
James Joyce: A Short Introduction Michael Seidel (Wien, Columbia University) 9780631227021
RRP: $67.10$59.87This reader-friendly introduction makes Joyce asscessible by combining the excitement of reading his words with the excitement of interpreting them.About the Author Michael Seidel is Jesse and George Siegel Professor of Humanities at Columbia University... -
John Adair: Fundamentals of Leadership by J. Gosling 9780230002050
RRP: $188.98$188.73John 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... -
Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange by Helen Palmer
RRP: $54.58$52.88Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation, or making-strange, from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory. She explores how we... -
Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore and The White Devil by Thomas Kyd
RRP: $27.28$27.01Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar... -
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: Project Blue Book - The Complete 1956 Report on UFOs by an Officer of the U.S. Air Force by Edward J Ruppelt 9781789872330
RRP: $27.26$26.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789872330Author Edward J RuppeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)... -
The Russian Graphosphere, 1450-1850 by Simon Franklin
RRP: $77.68$46.81The 'graphosphere' is the dynamic space of visible words. Graphospheres mutate, they are reconfigured with changes in technology, in modes of production, in social structures, in fashion and taste. The graphospheric environment can be public or private,... -
Works: v. 1 by Decimus Magnus Ausonius
RRP: $52.40$49.90A master of the jeweled style.Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), ca. AD 310-ca. 395, a doctor's son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a good education in grammar and rhetoric and a short period during which he was an advocate, he took to teaching rhetoric...