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Gender and Discourse by Deborah Tannen 9780195101249
RRP: $36.06$31.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Rebecca T. Alpert
RRP: $54.60$42.51This text explores what it is like to be part of both the lesbian and Jewish communities, suggesting ways in which lesbians can reconcile these seemingly discordant elements of their identity. It advocates the acceptance of lesbians into the Jewish... -
Civil War by Lucan 9780143106234
RRP: $25.33$22.58This 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 -... -
Fragments from the History of Loss: The Nature Industry and the Postcolony by Louise Green
RRP: $48.65$42.88The Anthropocene's urgent message about imminent disaster invites us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida by Leslie Hill
RRP: $38.98$33.40Few 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... -
Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary, with a New English Translation by Xenophon 9780198150251
RRP: $77.98$55.58The Oeconomicus is unique in Greek literature in combining a discussion of the proper management of an oikos (`family', `household', or `estate') and didactic material on agriculture within a Socratic dialogue. It is one of the richest primary sources... -
A Study Guide for Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375399401
RRP: $19.40$17.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375399401Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture by Yoshio Sugimoto
RRP: $76.03$65.91This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett
RRP: $62.30$49.08Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough PrizeA prizewinning poet argues that Blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, Black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the... -
Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture by Carol Thomas Neely
RRP: $54.58$47.07In the first book to provide a feminist analysis of early modern madness, Carol Thomas Neely reveals the mobility and heterogeneity of discourses of "distraction," the most common term for the condition in late-sixteenth- and early... -
The Metamorphoses of Tintin: or Tintin for Adults by Jean-Marie Apostolides
RRP: $46.78$40.64The Belgian artist Georges Remi's (Herge) legendary creation, Tintin is a figure whose adventures have enchanted readers in Europe for the last eighty years. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the twentieth century, with... -
The Cambridge History of German Literature by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly 9780521785730
RRP: $109.18$94.19This book describes German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, take a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also ask what Germans in a given period were actually... -
Victorian Soundscapes by John M. Picker 9780195151916
RRP: $70.18$49.63Far from the hushed restraint we associate with the Victorians, their world pulsated with sound. This book shows how, in more ways than one, Victorians were hearing things. The representations close listeners left of their soundscapes offered new... -
Perceforest - The Prehistory of King Arthur`s Britain by Nigel Bryant
RRP: $193.05$187.26A highly readable version of this remarkable and largely unexplored work. Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances. Justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a... -
Dickens's "Great Expectations" by Ian Brinton 9780826488589
$47.01"Reader's Guides" provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to... -
Aldhelm: the Prose Works by Aldhelm
RRP: $48.75$46.68Translation with notes of Aldhelm's famous treatise on virginity, and his less well-known letters. Aldhelm, born c.640 in Wessex, and becoming abbot of Malmesbury and later bishop of Sherborne, was the first English man of letters; up to 1100, his... -
Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka 9780231185752
RRP: $58.50$45.42The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic... -
Crime and Thriller Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion by Michelle Spring 9781472523938
RRP: $50.68$49.63Crime and Thriller Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing in these exciting genres. PART 1 explores the nature and history of the genre and helpsyou get started with ideas, planning and research. PART 2 includes... -
Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry by James Byrne
RRP: $25.33$17.43Bones Will Crow is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets in any language, and includes the work of Burmese poets in exile, in prison and undercover. Introduced by Zeyar Lynn, with a Preface by Ruth Padel.The poets featured are Tin Moe... -
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik Von Mossner 9780814254011
$70.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254011Author Alexa Weik Von MossnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite 9780231029292
RRP: $58.50$45.42What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual... -
A History of Ambiguity by Anthony Ossa-Richardson 9780691228440
RRP: $58.50$46.20Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism-far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive... -
Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent by Tom Paulin
RRP: $25.33$16.69Comprised of pieces spanning five centuries, Crusoe's Secret explores the culture of English dissent, whether through canonical works - Paradise Lost, Robinson Crusoe, Clarissa - or moving between epic and novel, lyric, tract and drama. Tom Paulin... -
Contemporary American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction Since 1970 by Kenneth Millard 9780198711780
RRP: $95.53$87.69Contemporary American Fiction provides an introduction to American fiction since 1970. Offering substantial and detailed interpretations of more than thirty texts by thirty different writers, Millard combines them in an innovative critical structure... -
What Does a Woman Want?: Reading and Sexual Difference by Shoshana Felman
RRP: $44.85$39.68'What does a woman want?'-the question Freud famously formulated in a letter to Marie Bonaparte-is a quintessentially male question that arises from women's resistance to their place in a patriarchal society. But what might it mean, asks Shoshana Felman,... -
Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory by C. Bloom 9780333623015
RRP: $175.48$175.25Here is an exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities: an investigation into the nature and theory of the contemporary mind in art and in life. Here too, the violent, the sensational and the erotic signify different facets of the modern... -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 9780312256869
$39.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312256869Author Emily BronteFormat PaperbackImprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning -
The Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge by Paul Davis 9780300046649
$88.49""This excellent, multilayered analysis of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843) and its myriad adaptations, interpretations, and reinterpretations illustrates that the classic story was 'only the beginning of the larger culture-text of the Carol... -
Word Power: Guide to Creative Writing by Julian Birkett 9780713648508
$38.98Many of us would like to write but find it difficult to begin. This book provides practical suggestions to help all writers give shape and substance to their ideas. There are tips on subjects to write about, ways of approaching them and how to develop... -
Mientras Los Hombres Mueren: Carmen Conde by Jean Andrews 9780719077524
RRP: $29.23$26.60Carmen Conde is a major figure in twentieth-century Spanish poetry. Though neglected up to now, Mientras los hombres mueren is the most important collection of war poetry to emerge from the Spanish Civil War. It was first published, in a limited edition,... -
Ben Jonson: Four Comedies by Ben Jonson 9780582070660
RRP: $120.88$117.00This edition of Ben Jonson's four middle comedies places the works in the popular history and culture of the times, 1605-1614, and surveys the influences, both classical and contemporary, on Jonson as a playwright. On-the-page annotations recreate the... -
Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery by Brian Boyd
RRP: $68.25$54.09Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of... -
Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland by Greg Thomas
RRP: $54.58$48.65This book offers the first in-depth account of the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s to the 1970s. Concrete poetry was a literary and artistic style which reactivated early... -
When We Leave Each Other by Henrik Nordbrandt 9781934824429
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934824429Author Henrik NordbrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open LetterWeight(grams) 266g -
Creative Writing Analysis by Graeme Harper 9780367902186
RRP: $72.13$63.43Creative Writing Analysis is a guide to solving creative writing problems; acting as a practical introduction to progressing a creative writing project as well as an exploration of the many ways in which creative writing can be understood.Through... -
The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues by Ellen Greene
RRP: $33.05$27.01The world has long wished for more of Sappho's poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in 2004 of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the fourth to have survived almost complete, has generated unprecedented... -
A Loom of One's Own: Crafts for Book Lovers by Virginia Wool
RRP: $25.33$17.86The perfect gift for fans of classic novels, crafting and puns. 'There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my glue gun.' This crafting celebration of... -
Science Fiction by Roger Luckhurst 9780745628936
$41.15In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and explicates major works of science fiction literature by... -
Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World by Paul A. Cantor
RRP: $50.70$48.46Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays Coriolanus, Julius Caeser, and Antony and Cleopatra in his landmark Shakespeare's Rome (1976). With Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy, he now argues that these plays form an integrated trilogy that portrays... -
Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year by Clare A Simmons
RRP: $48.73$40.76A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages. What does a maypole represent? Why eat hot cross buns? Did Dick Whittington have a cat? All these questions are related to a larger one that...