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Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford 9780252067952
RRP: £20.99£18.37In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects,... -
Rare Birds of North America by Steve N. G. Howell 9780691117966
RRP: £32.00£25.76Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 stunning color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different... -
The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Michael O'Neill 9780198806424
£35.00The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose-writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies in new directions. It consists of forty-two chapters written by an international... -
Genders by David Glover
RRP: £19.99£17.69The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan... -
A Dictionary of Postmodernism by Niall Lucy 9781405150781
£34.59A Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture. Explores the names and ideas that have come to define the postmodern condition... -
Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century by Maria Sachiko Cecire
RRP: £20.99£18.37From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why are so many people drawn to fantasy set in medieval, British-looking lands? This question has immediate... -
France at War by Rudyard Kipling 9781910500125
RRP: £8.99£6.85A collection of Rudyard Kipling's articles describing the French Frontline during the First World War. Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's birth.Book InformationISBN 9781910500125Author Rudyard KiplingFormat HardbackPage... -
French Crime Fiction by Claire Gorrara
RRP: £14.99£12.55This book is one of the first English-language studies to chart the development of crime fiction in French from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It analyses the distinctive features of a French-language tradition and introduces readers to a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Lacan by Jean-Michel Rabate
RRP: £32.99£28.38This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still... -
Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 by Patrick Brantlinger
RRP: £26.99£23.32Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously... -
Texture - A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading by Peter Stockwell
RRP: £23.99£21.85Representing the latest advance in cognitive poetics, this book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved in recent years. Taking key familiar concepts such as... -
Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls" by Alicia Tycer 9780826495563
£19.04Caryl Churchill is widely considered to be one of the most innovative playwrights to haveemerged in post-war British theatre. Identified as a socialist feminist writer, she is one of the few British women playwrights to have been incorporated into the... -
Samuel Pepys and his Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703 by Kate Loveman
RRP: £34.99£32.01Samuel Pepys was a great collector of books, news, and gossip. This study uses his surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late seventeenth century. Offering the first extensive history of reading... -
Interpretation and Overinterpretation by Umberto Eco 9780521425544
RRP: £38.99£31.31Umberto Eco, international bestselling novelist and leading literary theorist, here brings together these two roles in a provocative discussion of the vexed question of literary interpretation. The limits of interpretation - what a text can actually be... -
After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century by Colleen Lye
RRP: £23.99£20.37After Marx:Literature, Theory and Value demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline. The volume includes fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film and drama,... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel by Ato Quayson
RRP: £23.99£19.99The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Reflecting the development of postcolonial literary studies into a significant and intellectually vibrant field,... -
Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story: The Life and Times of the Detective Story by Howard Haycraft 9780486829302
RRP: £16.99£12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486829302Author Howard HaycraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by Christine Gerrard
RRP: £37.95£33.76A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRYEdited by Christine Gerrard This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past... -
Forget English!: Orientalisms and World Literatures by Aamir R. Mufti
RRP: £25.95£20.64A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe idea of world literature has garnered much attention recently as a discipline that promises to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of "national" literary traditions... -
The Cambridge Introduction to J. M. Coetzee by Dominic Head 9780521687096
RRP: £19.99£17.13The South African novelist and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is widely studied around the world and attracts considerable critical attention. With the publication of Disgrace Coetzee began to enjoy popular as well as critical acclaim, but his work can be... -
The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays by Margaret Cavendish
RRP: £24.00£21.18Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and original woman writer of the Restoration. Cavendish is the... -
Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities by Navid Kermani 9781509500345
RRP: £18.99£16.87What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht's drama? Which of Goethe's poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi's theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the... -
The Art of English Poesy: A Critical Edition by George Puttenham
RRP: £28.99£25.36George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War by David Loewenstein
RRP: £23.99£20.37Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about the topic of war. Contributors explore the... -
Critique of Critique by Roy Ben-Shai
RRP: £21.99£19.19What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book... -
Feminisms: A Reader by Maggie Humm 9780745009254
£46.98This major textbook for women's studies provides an excellent and wide-ranging introduction to feminist ideas and perspectives on issues such as the family, sexuality, work, education, patriarchy, race, language, culture and representation. It brings... -
Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission by Anne Toner
RRP: £30.99£19.99Anne Toner provides an original account of the history of ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing interest in these forms of non-completion in literature, Toner demonstrates how writers have... -
The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One: The Patron Author by Warren Boutcher
RRP: £29.49£27.15This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in... -
Basil Bunting on Poetry by Basil Bunting
£29.37"All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of... -
The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion by Edmond Jabes 9780804726849
RRP: £18.99£16.72The late Edmond Jabes was a major voice in French poetry in the latter half of this century. An Egyptian Jew, he was haunted by the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing. He focused on the space of the book, seeing it as the true... -
The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature by David Rudd
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of children's literature in all its manifestations. It features a series of essays written by expert contributors who provide an illuminating examination of why... -
Heathen Gods in Old English Literature by Richard North 9780521551830
RRP: £114.00£93.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century: Constructing Subjects by Ursula Fanning 9781683930334
RRP: £39.00£34.37This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women's writing through the twentieth century-a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self. Ursula Fanning addresses the thorny issue of... -
Hernando Colon's New World of Books: Toward a Cartography of Knowledge by Jose Maria Perez Fernandez
RRP: £27.50£23.29The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the... -
Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction by Ida Yoshinaga
RRP: £29.00£24.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543941Author Ida YoshinagaFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood by Patrick Keating
RRP: £30.00£23.29The camera's movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In... -
Wordsworth's Fun by Matthew Bevis
RRP: £24.00£23.03"The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge's cottage.... He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more quaint and Don Quixote-like." These words from William Hazlitt present a Wordsworth who differs from the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman by Andrew Cole
RRP: £23.99£20.37Piers Plowman has long been considered one of the greatest poems of medieval England. Current scholarship on this alliterative masterpiece looks very different from that available even a decade ago. New information about the manuscripts of the poem, new... -
Pervasive Animation by Suzanne Buchan
RRP: £49.99£45.06This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection - that is also... -
Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work by Rachel Falconer 9781474431453
RRP: £23.99£21.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474431453Author Rachel FalconerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...