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Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still Has To Teach Us About Sex and Gender by Richard Boothby
RRP: €44.02€38.71At just the moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to the ash-heap of intellectual history, Sex on the Couch rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and gender. Richard Boothby... -
Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 by Virginia Cox
RRP: €58.31€51.96This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and... -
The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory by Andrew Ashfield 9780521395823
RRP: €32.12€27.13This collection of texts on the Sublime provides the historical context for the foundation and discussion of one of the most important aesthetic debates of the Enlightenment. The significance of the Sublime in the eighteenth century ranged across a... -
What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon by Ankhi Mukherjee 9780804795258
RRP: €33.31€28.73What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century... -
Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey & the Iliad by Eva Brann 9780967967578
RRP: €28.55€18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967967578Author Eva BrannFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 443g -
Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction by Dorrit Claire Cohn
RRP: €53.55€42.03This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction. Each chapter deals with one main technique, illustrated from a wide range of... -
Hackers by Aase Berg
RRP: €13.08€8.78"This is a threat." That's how Hackers, Swedish writer Aase Berg's seventh book of poetry, begins. Hackers is a furious, feminist book about wanting to "hack" the patriarchal system-both in the physically violent sense and in the sense of computer... -
Virgil: A Study in Civilized Poetry by Brooks Otis 9780806127828
€27.86In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary... -
Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto by Mark Polizzotti 9780262537025
€32.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537025Author Mark PolizzottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 13mm -
Illness as Many Narratives: -Arts, Medicine and Culture- by Lecturer Stella Bolaki 9781474425582
€32.02Provides an understanding of the complex contribution illness narratives make to contemporary culture and the emergent field of Critical Medical Humanities.About the AuthorDr Stella Bolaki is Senior Lecturer in American Literature in the School of... -
The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture by Roxann Wheeler 9780812217223
€37.72In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons-but... -
Webster: The Duchess of Malfi by David Carnegie 9780230243750
RRP: €26.17€26.05The Duchess of Malfi is generally regarded as John Webster's finest play, a masterpiece of tragic depth and emotional complexity. The conflict between private love and public political behaviour for a passionate but circumscribed woman is as theatrically... -
The World of Bond and Maigret by Ian Fleming
RRP: €5.94€5.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475858Author Ian FlemingPage Count 34Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
Book of the Magical Mythical Unicorn, The: A Unique Anthology of Esoteric Knowledge, Myths and Legends by Vakasha Brenman
RRP: €13.08€11.15The Book of the Magical Mythical Unicorn is an anthology of esoteric knowledge, myths, and legends about the most magical of beasts: the mythical unicorn. Utilizing a global lens, the authors delve into the critical importance of the timeless unicorn... -
Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry by Fiona Stafford 9780199558162
€87.55How can poems so firmly attached to particular regions speak to readers far away, who might have no knowledge of the places featuring in the work? Why do writers turn to their own communities for materials? In this thought-provoking and beautifully... -
After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century by Lisa Downing
RRP: €27.36€20.69The work of Michel Foucault is much read, widely cited, and occasionally misunderstood. In response to this state of affairs, this collection aims to clarify, to contextualize, and to contribute to Foucauldian scholarship in a very specific way. Rather... -
Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent by Daphne Patai 9780231134170
RRP: €38.08€30.65Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New... -
Proust Among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: €47.60€45.87Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time. In... -
Race and the Modernist Imagination by Urmila Seshagiri
RRP: €64.26€55.68Race has long been recognized as a formative element of American modernism, but its role in England is less clearly understood. While critics have examined race in the works of British writers such as Kipling, Conrad, and Forster, they have done so... -
A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic by Christine Brooke-Rose 9780521276566
RRP: €36.88€34.13This 1981 book is a study of wide range of fiction, from short stories to tales of horror, from fairy-tales and romances to science fiction, to which the rather loose term 'fantastic' has been applied. Cutting across this wide field, Professor... -
Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel by Nancy Armstrong 9780195061604
RRP: €54.73€42.41In this strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Nancy Armstrong argues that the novels and non- fiction written by and for women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle class... -
The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare by Helen Cooper 9780199532582
RRP: €70.21€57.26The English Romance in Time is a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the... -
Black Poets by Dudley F. Randall
RRP: €9.51€7.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553275636Author Dudley RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 173mm... -
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk
RRP: €23.79€20.87In 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... -
The Red Thread: Twenty Years of NYRB Classics by Edwin Frank 9781681373911
RRP: €20.22€14.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373911Author Edwin FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Homeric Soundings: The Shaping of the Iliad by Oliver Taplin 9780198150145
RRP: €105.91€88.51This book combines the exploration of the "ethics" of the Iliad with its poetic and narrative techniques, which extend all the way from touches of phrasing to the shaping of whole scenes often separated by thousands of lines. these two... -
Time and Tide: The Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine by Catherine Clay
RRP: €34.50€32.02This book reconstructs the first two decades of Time and Tide (1920-1939) and explores the periodical's significance for an interwar generation of British women writers and readers.Book InformationISBN 9781474454810Author Catherine ClayFormat... -
Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England by Dr Valerie Wayne
€29.93This collection reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books, from those who worked in the book trade to those who composed, selected, collected and annotated books. Women gathered... -
Lovecraftian People and Places by Ken Faig 9781614983378
RRP: €29.75€23.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983378Author Ken FaigFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course by Laura Kalas
RRP: €29.74€28.46The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse. Margery Kempe's various illnesses, mental, spiritual and physical, are a recurring theme in her Book. This volume, the first full-length interdisciplinary study from a medical... -
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 9780393924664
RRP: €16.65€15.05This Norton Critical Edition brings to life-through Cather's words, and through the words and images of others-the uniquely American frontier experience. In inscribing a copy of O Pioneers! for a childhood friend, Cather wrote, "In this one I hit... -
A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914 by Margaret Beetham 9780415141123
RRP: €45.21€39.72Like the corset, the women's magazines which emerged in the nineteenth century produced a `natural' idea of femininity: the domestic wife; the fashionable woman; the romancing and desirable girl. Their legacy, from agony aunts to fashion plates, are... -
Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific by Peter Hallward 9780719061264
RRP: €29.75€26.22We may yet find a precise use for the notoriously elusive category 'postcolonial', but only on the condition that we abandon its usual associations with plurality, fragmentation, particularity and resistance. This book argues that the category is best... -
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord: Volume 14 by Yukiya Murasaki
RRP: €13.08€10.03"I admit it. You are the leader." "Thank you, Diablo. I will do everything to answer the trust you've placed in me." As it just so turns out, the former prime minister Noah Gibun is an outsider-a Cross Reverie player who was pulled into... -
The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing by Laura Lunger Knoppers 9780521712422
RRP: €32.12€27.13Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain from 1500-1700. Presenting... -
The Pleasures of Reading: In an Ideological Age by Robert Alter 9780393314991
RRP: €22.02€18.35From one of our premier literary scholars, here is a learned and witty introduction to the "sheer vitality of literature and the satisfactions of a close, informed engagement with it" (New York Times). Robert Alter's illumination of the unique power of... -
The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious by Lydia H. Liu
RRP: €33.32€32.59The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? Lydia H. Liu offers here the first rigorous study of the political history of digital writing and its... -
Natural History: v. 8: Bks.XXVIII-XXXII by Pliny the Elder
RRP: €29.69€27.83Pliny the Elder (23 79 CE) produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the universe; world geography and ethnography; human anthropology and physiology; zoology; botany,... -
A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 by Michael Levenson 9780521338004
RRP: €47.59€39.58A Geneology of Modernism is a study of literary transition in the first two decades of the twentieth-century, a period of extraordinary ferment and great accomplishment, during which the avant-garde gradually consolidated a secure place within English... -
A Monk in the Bee Hive by Skye Ann Louise Taylor 9780981575773
RRP: €19.04€11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981575773Author Skye Ann Louise TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Logosophia, LLCPublisher Logosophia, LLCWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 224mm...