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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
RRP: £55.00£49.69Archaeologists 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,”... -
Resolutely Black: Conversations with Francoise Verges by Aime Cesaire 9781509537150
RRP: £14.99£13.58Aime Cesaire's work is foundational for decolonial and postcolonial thought. His Discourse on Colonialism, first published in 1955, influenced generations of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought by Gregory Claeys 9781107696143
RRP: £23.99£20.37The nineteenth century was seemingly a period of great progress. Huge advancements and achievements were made in science, technology and industry that transformed life and work alike. But a growing pride in modernity and innovation was tainted by a sense... -
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... -
A Transnational Poetics by Jahan Ramazani
RRP: £24.00£23.03Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous-"stubbornly national," in T. S. Eliot's phrase, or "the most provincial of the arts," according to W. H. Auden. But in A Transnational Poetics, Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the... -
James Joyce's 'Work in Progress': Pre-Book Publications of Finnegans Wake Fragments by Dirk Van Hulle
RRP: £43.99£38.84The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the... -
London Fictions by Andrew Whitehead 9781907869662
RRP: £14.99£12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907869662Author Andrew WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Close Reading: The Reader by Frank Lentricchia
RRP: £25.99£22.89An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century's foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The... -
Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719 by Steve Mentz 9780816691067
RRP: £23.99£20.84Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists by Timothy Parrish
RRP: £26.99£22.80This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics... -
Shakespeare: King Lear by Frank Kermode
RRP: £95.00£94.80This revised edition of the successful Casebook first published in 1969, has been brought up-to-date with the inclusion of more recent criticism, whilst retaining early comments and critiques. Contributors include A.C.Bradley, A.Wilson Knight, Enid... -
Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition by Mark Twain 9780520272255
RRP: £25.00£18.51The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published "Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1", the first... -
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian 9780195152647
RRP: £27.49£25.45As the popularity of William Bennett's Book of Virtues attests, parents are turning more and more to children's literature to help instill values in their kids. Now, in this elegantly written and passionate book, Vigen Guroian provides the perfect... -
The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective by Antonio Benitez Rojo
RRP: £23.99£21.24In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs... -
The City of the Sun: A Poetical Dialogue (La Citta del Sole: Dialogo Poetico) by Tommaso Campanella
RRP: £20.00£18.19Among Renaissance utopias, "The City of the Sun" is perhaps second in importance only to More's more famous work. There are striking similarities between Campanella's utopia and More's, but also striking differences which reflect both changed historical... -
Homer: Iliad I by Homer 9780198721864
RRP: £54.00£44.42Iliad I provides the commentary and student aids lacking in larger volumes of Homer's work. It contains a full Introduction designed to highlight the most important features of the text. There are sections on the Iliad and its qualities, the Homeric... -
The Bell Tower by Pamela Crowe 9781912915996
RRP: £7.00£5.05Acerbic, precise and very funny, Pamela Crowe's poems explore home life and relationships in a delightfully forthright voice. Secret frustrations and anxieties are aired and private fantasies brought into the light, as odes blur into diatribes and... -
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America by Gloria Bird 9780393318289
RRP: £27.00£23.44This long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect poetry, fiction, prayer,... -
Education By Stone by Joao Cabral de Melo Neto
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974968018Author Joao Cabral de Melo NetoFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 388g -
The Aeneid of Virgil, 35th Anniversary Edition by Virgil 9780520254152
RRP: £25.00£19.99This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume... -
The Beats: A Literary History by Steven Belletto
RRP: £29.99£25.25Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical history takes readers through key works by these... -
American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction by David Caplan
RRP: £8.99£7.91A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engaging volume, David Caplan proposes a new theory of American poetry. With lively writing and... -
Music Lessons: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures by Fiona Sampson
RRP: £8.95£6.42In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by... -
Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955 by Mary Grover
RRP: £24.99£22.41An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication via the Liverpool University Press website.Steel City Readers makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading... -
Capital by Macat Team
RRP: £6.50£6.11A critical analysis of Karl Marx's Capital, which is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries. Controversial in its politics, and arriving at conclusions that are passionately debated to... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson by Greg Clingham
RRP: £25.99£21.99Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson's writing and thought, including his ethical grasp... -
Essence of the Brontes: A Compilation with Essays by Muriel Spark 9781847772466
RRP: £12.95£8.91First published by Peter Owen in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark's writings on the Bronte sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily Bronte's poems. Perceptively but unsentimentally, Spark considers the Brontes'... -
Virginia Woolf and the Real World by Alex Zwerdling
RRP: £29.00£22.54"The finest critical book on Virginia Woolf to date. Alex Zwerdling's large and subtle study places Virginia Woolf's world of class, politics, feminism, pacifism, and the family into firm historical perspective. The book leaves us with renewed... -
Sniff's Book of Thoughts by Sami Malila
RRP: £5.99£4.44Who of us could not confess to liking food, sleeping and things that shine - at least sometimes? Or dream about becoming rich? This is also true of Sniff, who is fundamentally sweet-natured and who willingly participates in everything, so long as it... -
A Short History of English Literature by Robert Barnard 9780631190882
RRP: £39.95£35.04Thoroughly updated, this book remains the best overall survey of English literature available. Brings this successful book up to date with new material on, among others, Caryl Churchill, Brian Friel, Martin Amis and Graham Swift Very accessible About the... -
It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics by Francesca Polletta
RRP: £27.00£26.47Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960, four black college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave. Within a month,... -
Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change by Carolyn Fornoff 9780826506177
£33.95Subjunctive Aesthetics argues for the importance of ecocritical approaches within the field of Mexican Studies. While environmental historians of Mexico have been leading the charge in terms of foregrounding the nonhuman as a legitimate object of... -
In the Catacombs: A Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery by Chris McCabe 9781908058195
RRP: £12.99£8.94Opened in 1837 and inspired by the Pere Lachaise in Paris, West Norwood became known as the Millionaire's Cemetery. But within its opulent grounds there are twelve buried names whose currency is language: these are the dead poets of West Norwood. In the... -
Inventing the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination by Connal Parr 9780198847755
RRP: £35.49£32.45This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates. Anchored by the perspectives of ten writers - some of whom have been... -
The Atom in Seventeenth-Century Literature: 39 by Cassandra Gorman
RRP: £80.00£77.01An investigation into the remarkable "poetics of the atom" in English literary texts from the mid to late seventeenth century. The early modern "atom" - understood as an indivisible particle of matter - captured the poetic imagination in ways that... -
Daniel Defoe: His Life by Paula R. Backscheider 9780801845123
£29.39Throughout one of English history's most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, religious, and social controversy. This widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of Defoe's... -
Derek Mahon: A Study of His Poetry by Christopher Steare 9781910996089
RRP: £15.99£15.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996089Author Christopher SteareFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
The Poetry of Yunus Emre, A Turkish Sufi Poet by Grace Martin Smith
RRP: £31.00£28.25The popularity of Yunus Emre, who is often referred to as the Turkish national poet, has endured for six centuries. Yunus is the most important representative of early Turkish mysticism; he can be considered the founder of Alevi-Bektasi literature, and...