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Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures by Leona Toker
RRP: £15.99£14.24Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction... -
Imagining Autism: Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum by Sonya Freeman Loftis
RRP: £11.99£10.94A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism remains in large part a mystery, giving rise to both fear and fascination. Sonya Freeman Loftis's groundbreaking study examines literary representations of... -
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk
RRP: £19.99£17.81In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds-the intertwinement of the mental and the physical-in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory... -
Shakespeare - King Lear by Susan Bruce
£25.45Of the huge body of critical writing devoted to Shakespeare's plays, by far the greatest proportion is concerned with the tragedies - and, for students of English literature, a familiarity with the great tragedies remains a necessity. To deal with such... -
The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt by Peter Murphy
RRP: £23.99£20.84Thomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells-in vivid and compelling detail-of the... -
The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: £44.99£39.68This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek universe, Thomas More's classic Utopia, and J. R. R... -
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... -
The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Eileen Cleere 9780814252789
£24.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252789Author Eileen CleereFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 313g -
The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England by Nicholas Jenkins 9780674025226
£28.57A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden’s early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England.From his first poems in 1922 to the publication of his... -
Carmilla: A Critical Edition by Joseph Le Fanu Sheridan 9780815633112
£21.25This title situates Carmilla within its Irish Cultural milieu and treats the text as self-standing rather than as a precursor to Dracula. Unlike other collections of Gothic literature, Costello-Sullivan's work focuses solely on Carmilla.Book... -
Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement by Sarah RudeWalker 9780820363967
£28.98In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics-in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence,... -
Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora by Anindya Raychaudhuri 9781783482634
RRP: £35.00£30.71Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have?Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the... -
To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages by Nicholas L. Paul
RRP: £28.99£25.36When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory... -
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea Anthony Grafton 9780674030480
£28.30When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and... -
Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology by Leonard Lawlor
RRP: £18.99£16.98"[A] magnificent work . . . that will definitely shape the discussion on Derrida for years to come." -Rodolphe GascheWhat is the nature of the relationship of Jacques Derrida and deconstruction to Edmund Husserl and phenomenology? Is deconstruction a... -
Signature Derrida by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £24.00£23.43Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with "Critical Inquiry" and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed from... -
The Pancake that Ran Away by Loek Koopmans 9781782501763
RRP: £9.99£7.21Three old ladies are looking forward to eating the delicious fat pancake they've just made. But the pancake has other ideas! It jumps out of the pan, rolls out the door and into the woods as fast as it can go, calling, "You can't catch me!" All... -
William Blake in Context by Sarah Haggarty
RRP: £23.99£21.51William Blake, poet and artist, is a figure often understood to have 'created his own system'. Combining close readings and detailed analysis of a range of Blake's work, from lyrical songs to later myth, from writing to visual art, this collection of... -
Writing from the Center by Scott Russell Sanders
£17.51" . . . 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... -
The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy by Lingua Franca 9780803279957
RRP: £18.99£15.60In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text. The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism. And the... -
Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann by Peter Wortsman
RRP: £12.99£9.80'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered' Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the... -
Cultural Theory: An Anthology Imre Szeman (University of Alberta, Canada) 9781405180825
RRP: £33.95£30.75Cultural Theory: An Anthology is a collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory Features a historically diverse and methodologically concise collection of readings including rare essays... -
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... -
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory by Vivienne Rundle 9781551111001
RRP: £75.00£71.11The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory is the most comprehensive collection of poetry from the period ever published. Included are generous selections from the work of all major poets, and a representation of the work of virtually... -
British Enlightenment Theatre: Dramatizing Difference by Bridget Orr
RRP: £30.99£23.21In this ground-breaking work, Bridget Orr shows that popular eighteenth-century theatre was about much more than fashion, manners and party politics. Using the theatre as a means of circulating and publicizing radical Enlightenment ideas, many plays made... -
John Mcgahern: Authority and Vision by Zeljka Doljanin
RRP: £25.00£17.92This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy... -
Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works by Victoria Kirkham
RRP: £36.00£35.23Although Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. "Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the... -
In Praise of Disobedience: The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde 9781784784812
RRP: £11.99£9.96In 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... -
The Passionate Intellect by Barbara Reynolds 9781597521000
RRP: £27.00£20.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597521000Author Barbara ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Falstaff: Give Me Life by Harold Bloom 9781501164149
RRP: £16.00£9.52Apologies 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... -
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... -
Perfume by Megan Volpert
RRP: £9.99£7.77Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Our sense of smell is crucial to our survival. We can smell fear, disease, food. Fragrance is also entertainment. We can smell an expensive... -
A Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg by Geraint H. Jenkins
RRP: £19.99£15.53Better known by the bardic name of Iolo Morganwg, Edward Williams was one of history's great fantasists. The legacy he left behind was a cottage filled to the ceiling with manuscripts. This volume provides a re-evaluation of the diverse interests of Iolo... -
Questionnaire by Dr. Evan Kindley
RRP: £9.99£7.77Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors' offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to... -
Civil War by Lucan 9780143106234
RRP: £12.99£11.94This is a magnificent new translation of the enduring epic about the sundering of the Roman Republic. Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulence in Rome. His "Civil War" portrays two of the most colourful and powerful figures of the age -... -
En Abime: Listening, Reading, Writing: An Archival Fiction by Daniela Cascella 9781780994031
RRP: £9.99£8.69En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience, and contributes with previously... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida by Leslie Hill
RRP: £19.99£17.13Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). Derridian deconstruction remains one of the most powerful intellectual...