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Textual Scholarship: An Introduction David C. Greetham 9780815317913
RRP: £43.99£39.14First published in 1994. This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Textual Scholarship covers all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing for students and scholars. As the definitive introduction to the skills of textual... -
Tamburlaine the Great (Revels Student Edition): Christopher Marlowe J. S. Cunningham 9780719054365
RRP: £10.99£8.12Expanded footnotes designed to help readers from all levels of familiarity with Elizabethan drama. Emphasis on the play as a theatre text - informative stage-directions. Stimulating introduction, which makes something of a break from the orthodox style ... -
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... -
Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies by Sam See
RRP: £25.99£22.84Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work-both published and unpublished-that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013. In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly... -
The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature David Rudd (University of Bolton, UK) 9780415472715
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... -
Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion by Carol Margaret Davison
RRP: £23.99£19.51Written from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, 'Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion' interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth... -
In the Spirit of Spark: The Muriel Spark Society Lecture by Ali Smith
RRP: £4.99£3.76In November 2017 Ali Smith gave the annual Muriel Spark Lecture to kick off the Muriel Spark centenary celebrations. Those lucky enough to get tickets were treated to an invigorating, joyous call-and-response between two of our best writers, both... -
The Death Penalty, Volume II: Volume II by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £39.00£32.79In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambitious end: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. Exploring an impressive breadth of thought, he traced a... -
Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism by Maud Ellmann 9780582083479
RRP: £49.99£47.84This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, particularly by the... -
The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel by George Levine
RRP: £29.00£22.54MARY SHELLEY's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus grew out of a parlor game and a nightmare vision. The story of the book's origin is a famous one, first told in the introduction Mary Shelley wrote for the 1831 edition of the novel. The two... -
Anthony Munday and Civic Culture: Theatre, History and Power in Early Modern London 1580-1633 by Tracey Hill 9780719063831
RRP: £19.99£17.61Anthony Munday and civic culture is a full-scale study of a fascinating but hitherto neglected author set in the context of the city where he was born, lived and worked. Munday was a contemporary of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Dekker, amongst... -
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... -
Problems: v. II: Rhetoric to Alexander by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.76Peripatetic potpourri.Aristotle of Stagirus (384-322 BC), the great Greek philosopher, researcher, logician, and scholar, studied with Plato at Athens and taught in the Academy (367-347). Subsequently he spent three years in Asia Minor at the court of... -
Pervasive Animation by Suzanne Buchan
RRP: £49.99£45.41This 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... -
The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities "After Man" by Kandice Chuh
RRP: £19.99£17.54In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls "illiberal humanism" instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the... -
Who Is Dracula's Father?: And Other Puzzles in Bram Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece by John Sutherland
RRP: £8.99£6.18When it was first published in 1897 - 120 years ago - Irish author Bram Stoker's Dracula was ranked by the Daily Mail above work by Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as Wuthering Heights. Yet it never madeStoker any money.Since 1931's film... -
30 Great Myths about the Romantics by Duncan Wu 9781118843192
RRP: £16.95£15.20Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, 30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity to what we know or think we know about one of the most important periods... -
Seamus Heaney: An Introduction Richard Rankin Russell 9781474401661
RRP: £23.99£19.51The first detailed introduction to the entirety of Seamus Heaney's work This study will enable readers to gain clearer understanding of the life and major works of Seamus Heaney. It considers literary influences on Heaney, ranging from English poets... -
Shakespeare and Modernity: Early Modern to Millennium by Hugh Grady 9780415212014
RRP: £37.99£33.38This in-depth collection of essays traces the changing reception of Shakespeare over the past four hundred years, during which time Shakespeare has variously been seen as the last great exponent of pre-modern Western culture, a crucial inaugurator of... -
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity by Ardel Haefele-Thomas 9780708324653
RRP: £19.99£15.23Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From... -
Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings by Henry James 9781598534719
RRP: £35.99£23.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534719Author Henry JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 722g -
The Gospel According to Harry Potter: Spirituality in the Stories of the World's Favourite Seeker by Connie Neal 9780664226015
£14.10In a book that is sure to delight Harry Potter fans and spiritual seekers alike, Connie Neal embarks on an exploration into J.K. Rowling's created world of magic and mystery and enumerates more than fity "Potteran" themes that can be seen as glimmers of... -
Plato's Symposium by Richard Hunter 9780195160802
RRP: £36.49£27.40Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its... -
The Importance of Being Poirot by Jeremy Black
RRP: £16.00£13.84Written by the renowned British historian who has been described as both utterly thorough and humanely delicate, Jeremy Black offers a guided tour through the mind of Agatha Christie and life during the Great World Wars. His incomparable treatment of... -
Soap by Francis Ponge 9780804729550
RRP: £18.99£16.05". . . And now, dear reader, for your intellectual toilet, here is a little piece of soap. Well handled, we guarantee it will be enough. Let us hold this magic stone." The poet Francis Ponge (1899-1988) occupied a significant and unchallenged place in... -
Sir Thomas Browne: A Life by Reid Barbour
£51.16Sir Thomas Browne: A Life is the first full-scale biography of the extraordinary prose artist, physician, and polymath. With the help of recent archival discoveries, the biography recasts each phase of Browne's life (1605-82) and situates his... -
'The Tempest' in Context: Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness by Keith Linley 9781783083756
RRP: £14.99£14.68This engaging book provides detailed in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1611 would have brought to interpreting 'The Tempest'. How did people think about the world, about God, about sin, about kings, about civilized... -
Student Guide to Robert Frost by Warren Hope
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551709Author Warren HopeFormat HardbackImprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter by Ewan Fernie 9781107130852
RRP: £44.99£41.30Shakespeare for Freedom presents a powerful, plausible and political argument for Shakespeare's meaning and value. It ranges across the breadth of the Shakespeare phenomenon, offering a new interpretation not just of the characters and plays, but also of... -
Kazuo Ishiguro: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Sean Matthews 9780826497246
£32.03Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, included twice in Grantas list of Best Young British Writers, has over the past twenty-five years... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel by Morag Shiach 9780521670746
RRP: £32.99£28.43The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. No one... -
Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins by Artemis Leontis 9780691210766
RRP: £25.00£19.90The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis book tells the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and... -
Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit by John Bowen 9780198185062
£46.97In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. They are exorbitant and transgressive books, with an inventive comic force... -
Kojiki: The Birth of Japan: The Japanese Creation Myth Illustrated by Kazumi Wilds
RRP: £6.99£5.17Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation myth-told here for the very first time in illustrated form. In the beginning there was nothing-a void. Then the heavens and the earth took shape, as the ancient gods of Japan breathed the first... -
Literature of the 1980s: After the Watershed: Volume 9 by Joseph Brooker
RRP: £23.99£22.19The 1980s were a time of tumultuous transition in Britain. While the Cold War's endgame was played, the Thatcher government transformed the social landscape of the post-war consensus. This wide-ranging study tracks the development of a new generation of... -
Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry Bernard O'Donoghue 9780745007168
RRP: £49.99£48.21This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on... -
Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses Robert Eaglestone 9780815376699
RRP: £37.99£33.64Brexit is a political, economic and administrative event: and it is a cultural one, too. In Brexit and Literature, Robert Eaglestone brings together a diverse range of literary scholars, writers and poets to respond to this aspect of Brexit. The... -
Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism by Eliot Borenstein
RRP: £23.99£20.84In this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious tracts to...