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Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend by Roy Morris, Jr. 9781421431536
RRP: £20.50£15.93The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists by Adrian Poole 9780521691574
RRP: £30.99£24.20In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy,... -
New Queer Horror Film and Television by Darren Elliott-Smith
RRP: £30.00£25.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786836267Author Darren Elliott-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Wales PressPublisher University of Wales PressWeight(grams) 140g -
The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture by Esther Cohen
RRP: £55.00£52.91In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrongdoing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain - from... -
A History of the Bildungsroman by Sarah Graham
RRP: £36.99£21.89The Bildungsroman has been one of the most significant genres in Western literature since the eighteenth century. This volume, comprised of eleven chapters by leading experts in the field, offers original insights into how the novel of formation... -
Positiverosity: 7 Golden Principles by David Fox-Pitt 9781912477647
RRP: £10.00£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477647Author David Fox-PittFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm) 215mm... -
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Biography by Rosemary Ashton
RRP: £41.95£37.13Rosemary Ashton explores the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's complex personality, by turns poet, critic, thinker, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist and guilt-ridden opium addict.About the AuthorRosemary Ashton is... -
The Warrior Song of King Gesar by Douglas J Penick 9780974597461
RRP: £16.95£13.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974597461Author Douglas J PenickFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Mountain Treasury PressPublisher Mountain Treasury PressWeight(grams)... -
The Age Between: Personal Reflections on Youth Fiction by Aidan Chambers
£16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916121409Author Aidan ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Fincham Press RoehamptonPublisher Fincham Press Roehampton -
Dear Father, Dear Son: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and Jr. by J. W. Ernst 9780823215591
RRP: £39.00£34.12Many biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. have been compiled- some have used bits of the original correspondence presented here and tried to show opposing interests between John D. Rockefeller and his son. Still others were... -
Eighteenth-century Literature and Culture by Paul Goring 9780826485656
RRP: £21.99£21.89This guide to eighteenth-century literature and culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1688-1789, including: the historical, cultural and intellectual background including the expansion of cultural... -
Rethinking Metonymy: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson by Sebastian Matzner 9780198724285
RRP: £26.49£23.82Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right. Not only has this created a gap in literary analytical scholarship which needs to be addressed, but it... -
Dangerous Children: On Seven Novels and a Story by Professor Kenneth Gross
RRP: £22.00£18.56Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in works of fiction. Ranging from Victorian to modern works-Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, Henry James's What Maisie Knew, J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy,... -
Diablo: Book of Cain by Blizzard Entertainment 9781803368313
RRP: £27.99£18.25Delve deeper into the dark fantasy world of the Diablo universe as Deckard Cain shares history and lore in this fictional illustrated journal. In Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo (R) and Diablo II, the recurring character of Deckard Cain delivered... -
Amy Levy: Critical Essays by Naomi Hetherington
RRP: £23.99£20.84Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female... -
Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Interventions by Charles Bernstein
RRP: £23.00£22.13Charles Bernstein is our postmodern jester of American poesy, equal part surveyor of democratic vistas and scholar of avant-garde sensibilities. In a career spanning thirty-five years and forty books, he has challenged and provoked us with writing that... -
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9780333294413
£45.97One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later... -
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Light Novel): Volume 5 by Yu Okano
RRP: £10.99£8.43When Rentt Faina crosses paths with Nive Maris, he finds himself victim to a rain of Holy Fire! But rather than prove he's a vampire, it disproves it! Lorraine believes Rentt's divinity may have protected against the Holy Fire, and together they decide... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9781405129299
RRP: £29.95£27.01In this authoritative edition of John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost is presented in the original language of its 1674 publication, with explanatory annotations and word glosses. Edited by one of the world's leading Milton scholars, the author of... -
Julia Wedgwood, The Unexpected Victorian: The Life and Writing of a Remarkable Female Intellectual by Sue Brown 9781839988592
RRP: £25.00£23.78Though Julia Wedgwood is still remembered as a commentator on the work of her uncle, Charles Darwin, and for her brief but intense friendship with Browning, her contemporary standing as a writer ("the thoughtful woman par excellence") has been obscured... -
A Study Guide for Rose Reginald's Twelve Angry Men by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375399449
RRP: £9.95£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375399449Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 2:: Henry VIII and his Six Wives by Janet Hardy-Gould
£10.87"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a... -
Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature by Stephen Dodd 9780674016521
RRP: £33.95£27.81This book examines the development of Japanese literature depicting the native place (furusato) from the mid-Meiji period through the late 1930s as a way of articulating the uprootedness and sense of loss many experienced as Japan modernized. The 1890s... -
Charles Dickens and 'Boz': The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author by Professor Robert L. Patten 9781107470316
RRP: £42.99£39.22Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking... -
Tragedy by John Drakakis 9781032013800
RRP: £19.99£17.69Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history.Tragedy... -
Writing from the Center by Scott Russell Sanders
£17.28" . . . essays of substance and beauty, and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard, Samuel Pickering, and Wendell Berry." -Library Journal"[Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further... -
Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages by Erich Auerbach
RRP: £45.00£40.81In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his Mimesis: the historical and... -
Who Is Dracula's Father?: And Other Puzzles in Bram Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece by John Sutherland
RRP: £8.99£6.08When 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... -
Narratology by Genevieve Liveley
£24.53This volume explores the extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of narrative, aiming not to argue that modern narratologies simply present 'old wine in new wineskins', but rather to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop by Dr. Angus J. Cleghorn 9781107672543
RRP: £23.99£20.37Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. Initially celebrated for the minute detail of her descriptions, what John Ashbery memorably called her 'thinginess', Bishop's reputation has... -
Literature For Children by Peter Hunt 9780415068277
RRP: £37.99£33.38Children's literature has recently produced a body of criticism with a highly distinctive voice. The book consolidates understanding of this area by including some of the most important essays published in the field in the last five years, demonstrating... -
The Ideology of Democratism by Emily B. Finley 9780197642290
RRP: £39.99£34.23A unique reinterpretation of democracy that shows how history's most vocal champions of democracy from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls have contributed to a pervasive, anti-democratic ideology, effectively redefining democracy to... -
In Praise of Disobedience: The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde 9781784784812
RRP: £11.99£9.70In Praise of Disobedience draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest prose - the year he came into maturity as an artist. Before the end of 1891, he had written the first of his phenomenally... -
"In vain I tried to tell you": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics by Dell Hymes 9780803273436
RRP: £23.99£19.17A landmark volume that revolutionized our understanding of the power and significance of Native stories and storytellers in North America, "In vain I tried to tell you" showcases the methodology and theory of ethnopoetics. Focusing on the rich Native... -
Falstaff: Give Me Life by Harold Bloom 9781501164149
RRP: £16.00£9.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501164149Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets by Claude Rawson 9780521697033
RRP: £36.99£24.20This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and... -
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy by Helene P. Foley 9780691094922
RRP: £45.00£35.72Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have... -
Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama by Eleanor Johnson
RRP: £26.00£24.85What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the... -
Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination by Jonathan Bate 9780198129943
£47.26Although is is well known that the Romantics were obsessed with Shakespeare, extraordinarily little attention has been paid to how this affected their creative practice and their theories of the imagination. Yet Shakespeare's effect on both was crucial,... -
Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema by Rey Chow
RRP: £28.00£22.91Chow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterizes the current crop of outstanding filmmakers, such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.Chow...