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Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary, with a New English Translation by Xenophon 9780198150251
RRP: £39.99£28.50The 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture by Yoshio Sugimoto
RRP: £38.99£33.80This 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... -
Superman is an Arab: On God, Marriage, Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions by Joumana Haddad 9781908906090
RRP: £8.99£6.30This is not a manifesto against men in general. Nor is it a manifesto against Arab men in particular. It is, however, a howl in the face of a particular species of men: the macho species, Supermen, as they like to envision themselves. But Superman is a... -
The Cambridge History of German Literature by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly 9780521785730
RRP: £55.99£48.30This 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... -
Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination by Peter Lurie 9780801879296
RRP: £43.00£38.42William Faulkner occupied a unique position as a modern writer. Although famous for his modernist novels and their notorious difficulty, he also wrote extensively for the "culture industry," and the works he produced for it-including short... -
Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative by Paul John Eakin
RRP: £21.99£19.49Autobiography is naturally regarded as an art of retrospect, but making autobiography is equally part of the fabric of our ongoing experience. We tell the stories of our lives piecemeal, and these stories are not merely about our selves but also an... -
The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer 9781032178837
RRP: £43.99£38.74Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history and development of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural... -
The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan: An Arab Folk Epic by Lena Jayyusi
RRP: £21.99£19.19"A charming and agreeable surprise . . . A welcome gift to Western readers." -Kirkus Reviews"Editor Jayyusi offers a major example of the Arabic folk epics or romances called siras . . . The siras are full of heroic adventures, exotic landscapes, love... -
Hernando Colon's New World of Books: Toward a Cartography of Knowledge by Jose Maria Perez Fernandez
RRP: £27.50£27.33The 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... -
Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England by Rebecca Lemon
RRP: £58.00£50.56Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth-century... -
Dickens's "Great Expectations" by Ian Brinton 9780826488589
£24.11"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... -
Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka 9780231185752
RRP: £30.00£23.29The 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... -
Death and the Labyrinth by Michel Foucault 9780826493620
£25.25"Death and the Labyrinth" is unique, being Foucault's only work on literature. For Foucault this was "by far the book I wrote most easily and with the greatest pleasure". Here, Foucault explores theory, criticism and psychology... -
Melincourt by Thomas Love Peacock
£90.28Melincourt (1817), Thomas Love Peacock's only three-volume novel, is also his most comprehensive work. In it, he explores a broad range of controversies: the dangers of 'paper money'; British consumers' complicity in slavery; the inequities of the... -
Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent by Tom Paulin
RRP: £12.99£8.80Comprised 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... -
Nothing to Do with Dionysos?: Athenian Drama in Its Social Context by John J. Winkler 9780691015255
RRP: £60.00£47.47These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor of the god Dionysos and were attended by a politically... -
Contemporary American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction Since 1970 by Kenneth Millard 9780198711780
RRP: £48.99£44.97Contemporary 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... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Edith Wharton by Pamela Knights 9780521687195
RRP: £19.99£17.13Born in New York into a world of wealth and privilege, and writing with unique insight into the lives of the rich and fashionable, Edith Wharton was a best-seller in her time, and is now, again, one of the most widely read American authors. This book... -
Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory by C. Bloom 9780333623015
RRP: £89.99£89.87Here 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... -
Literature and Cartography: Theories, Histories, Genres by Anders Engberg-Pedersen
RRP: £33.00£29.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262036740Author Anders Engberg-PedersenFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 235mm * 178mm * 27mm -
Samuel Beckett by David Pattie 9780415202541
RRP: £19.99£17.69Samuel Beckett's work forever changed the concepts of literature and theatre. His work remains a core part of introductory courses on literary history, drama, theatre or performance and also features in more specialist modules such as Modernism or The... -
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe by Daniel Defoe
£91.47This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British history, Defoe's correspondence spans topics... -
The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450-1600 by Jonathan J. G. Alexander
RRP: £55.00£48.09A comprehensive survey examining the vibrant and sumptuous art of illumination during a period of profound intellectual and cultural transformation Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance,... -
Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf by Gerri Kimber
RRP: £21.99£17.97These comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship.Book InformationISBN 9781474439664Author Gerri KimberFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint... -
Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland Greg Thomas 9781802077087
RRP: £27.99£24.95This 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... -
Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence by Pablo Neruda 9780393306439
RRP: £27.99£23.66In this beautiful printing of Poirot's classic work-featuring new scans from newly made prints-we come to know the poet's magical world through his poems, his houses, the wonderful things he collected, and his friends.About the AuthorPablo Neruda was... -
When We Leave Each Other Henrik Nordbrandt 9781934824429
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies 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 -
The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece by Roseanne Montillo 9780062025838
RRP: £15.99£11.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Macavity Award (Nonfiction) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780062025838Author Roseanne MontilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos by Outhine Bounyavong 9780295977362
RRP: £13.99£12.59Outhine Bounyavong is one of the most prominent contemporary writers in Laos. His stories are animated with Laotian virtues of simplicity, compassion, respect for age, and other village mores; they breathe with a gentleness that is fresh and distinctive... -
A Loom of One's Own: Crafts for Book Lovers by Virginia Wool
RRP: £12.99£9.35The 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... -
The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat by Michel Leiris 9781635900842
RRP: £23.00£16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900842Author Michel LeirisFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation by Laura Ashe
RRP: £34.49£30.07The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered... -
Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present by Fred Botting
RRP: £19.99£14.52Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. It argues that emerging media technologies from the phantasmagoria and magic... -
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio 9780231207577
RRP: £30.00£23.29By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to expect stories of identity formation, of how immigrants create ethnic communities and maintain ties to... -
Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond by Marleen S. Barr 9780807844212
£50.61Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical... -
Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism Zakir Paul 9780691257983
RRP: £35.00£27.74A critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thoughtIn the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of quantifying, measuring, and evaluating “intelligence,”... -
An Introduction to Narratology by Monika Fludernik 9780415450300
RRP: £35.99£31.69An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines: the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of... -
Surprised by Sound: Rhyme's Inner Workings by Roi Tartakovsky 9780807174753
£40.39In Surprised by Sound, Roi Tartakovsky shows that the power of rhyme endures well into the twenty-first century even though its exemplary usages may differ from traditional or expected forms. His work uncovers the mechanics of rhyme, revealing how and... -
Bakhtinian Thought:Intro Read by Professor Simon Dentith
RRP: £39.99£35.06First published in 1994. Mikhail Bakhtin, and the writers associated with him, have come to be recognised as writers of trail-blazing importance. Working in the extraordinarily difficult conditions of Stalinist Russia, they nevertheless produced a body... -
Avengers Assemble!: Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Terence McSweeney
RRP: £28.00£22.91We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film franchises of the new millennium. In the first...