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A General Introduction to the Semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce by James Jakob Liszka
RRP: $25.79$22.63"This definitive text is the single best work on Peirce's semeiotic (as Peirce would have spelled it) allowing scholars to extrapolate beyond Peirce or to apply him to new areas . . ." -Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter". . ... -
Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust: A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past by Howard Moss 9781589880795
RRP: $20.63$13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880795Author Howard MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 168g -
Children's Literature Peter Hunt (University of Wales) 9780631211419
RRP: $51.54$45.20This practical guide provides a comprehensive and inviting introduction to English-language children's literature from the eighteenth-century to 2000. The book opens with a discussion of the often controversial theory and history of this influential and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture by Andrew Galloway 9780521673273
RRP: $34.82$29.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Is Literature Healthy?: The Literary Agenda by Josie Billington
$17.79The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry by James Byrne
RRP: $16.76$11.84Bones 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... -
Modernism: The Basics by Laura Winkiel
RRP: $25.79$22.82Modernism: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the study of modernism in its global dimensions. Examining the key concepts, history and varied forms of the field, it guides the reader through the major approaches, outlining key debates, to... -
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches Miranda Corcoran 9781786838926
RRP: $38.70$32.99In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope. Appearing in films, novels, comics and on television, adolescent witches have long reflected shifting societal attitudes towards the teenage... -
Murach's Java Programming (6th Edition) by Joel Murach 9781943872879
RRP: $78.68$53.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943872879Author Joel MurachFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Mike Murach & Associates Inc.Publisher Mike Murach & Associates Inc. -
Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales and Femininity by U. C. Knoepflmacher
RRP: $38.70$38.25Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the specter of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Comics by Maaheen Ahmed 9781009255691
RRP: $29.66$25.99The Cambridge Companion to Comics presents comics as a multifaceted prism, generating productive and insightful dialogues with the most salient issues concerning the humanities at large. This volume provides readers with the histories and theories... -
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
RRP: $16.76$14.78Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the... -
Karbala: A Historical Play by Premchand by Professor Nishat Zaidi 9780190132637
RRP: $59.33$53.84In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussain, sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in the desert of Karbala, Iraq, to resist the debauched ruler Yazid. In twentieth-century India, when the communal conflict... -
Shakespeare and Textual Theory by Prof. Suzanne Gossett
RRP: $29.66$25.94There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the stage, has been revised, augmented and emended since Shakespeare's lifetime. An essential resource for the... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists by Timothy Parrish
RRP: $34.82$29.41This 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... -
Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis by Elizabeth Abel
RRP: $29.67$28.55"A stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and Freudian psychoanalytic debates about the primacy of maternality and paternality in the construction of consciousness, gender, politics, and the past, and of... -
Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker 9780801881855
RRP: $49.02$44.31Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a "man who lived among the cannibals!" Until his death in 1891, Melville was known as the author of Typee (1846) and... -
Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery by Joachim Latacz 9780199263080
RRP: $154.80$125.94In this book Joachim Latacz turns the spotlight of modern research on the much-debated question of whether the wealthy city of Troy described by Homer in the Iliad was a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality. Earlier excavations at the hill of... -
Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature by Nicola Bown
RRP: $45.14$39.13Although fairies are now banished to the realm of childhood, these diminutive figures were central to the work of many Victorian painters, novelists, poets and even scientists. It would be no exaggeration to say that the Victorians were obsessed with... -
Crave the Rose: Anne Bronte at 200 by Nick Holland
$16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436361Author Nick HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm -
The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader by Sandra Harding 9780822349570
RRP: $33.53$29.98For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding... -
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction by Jeff Prucher 9780195305678
RRP: $36.11$27.10The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction, Brave New Words:The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction shows exactly how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time, with full citations and bibliographic... -
Poetry as Experience by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe 9780804734271
RRP: $25.79$22.63Lacoue-Labarthe's Poetry as Experience addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. In his analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry, Lacoue-Labarthe defines the subject as the principle... -
Shakespeare's Resources by John Drakakis 9781526174529
RRP: $32.25$28.42Geoffrey Bullough's The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeare's plays with a series of texts on which they were thought to be based. Shakespeare's Resources revisits and... -
Figures of Catastrophe: The Condition of Culture Novel by Francis Mulhern
RRP: $21.92$15.58The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of culture novel. Reading across and against the grain of received patterns of literary association, tracing a... -
The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology by Wolfgang Iser 9780801844997
RRP: $30.96$27.71"Iser is an influential figure, and aficionados will welcome the comprehensive exposition he provides here."--Terence Cave, TLS The pioneer of "literary anthropology," Wolfgang Iser presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive exploration of this new field... -
The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor by Jonathan Rose 9780300204070
RRP: $32.25$32.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Russian Literature by Andrew Baruch Wachtel 9780745636863
RRP: $29.66$26.41For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps... -
The Literary Mind by Mark Turner 9780195104110
RRP: $38.69$30.70We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables... -
William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion by John Jowett 9780393316674
RRP: $53.54$48.77A comprehensive reference work on Shakespearean textual problems, setting forth the editorial principles of the Oxford Edition and providing a concise history of Shakespeare editing. Includes for each play, textual notes, press-variants, discussions of... -
Don't Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles by James Salter 9781640091115
RRP: $16.76$16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640091115Author James SalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 147mm * 21mm -
Christian Humanism in Shakespeare: A Study in Religion and Literature by Lee Oser
$42.23Shakespeare, Lee Oser argues, is a Christian literary artist who criticizes and challenges Christians, but who does so on Christian grounds. Stressing Shakespeare's theological sensitivity, Oser places Shakespeare's work in the "radical middle," the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry by Jahan Ramazani
RRP: $30.95$26.28The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry is the first collection of essays to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual, gender, and comparative approaches. The essays encompass a broad range of... -
The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 by Katrin Ettenhuber 9780198881186
RRP: $100.62$91.95The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep but uncharted relationship with logic. The nature and functions of logic have been largely misunderstood in... -
The Book of Margins by Edmond Jabes
RRP: $36.12$35.33The death of Edmond Jabes in January 1991 silenced one of the most compelling voices of the postmodern, post-Holocaust era. Jabes's importance as a thinker, philosopher, and Jewish theologian cannot be overestimated, and his enigmatic style-combining... -
Doctor Joe Bell: Model for Sherlock Holmes by Ely Liebow 9780879721985
RRP: $34.77$24.87It is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes, wrote Arthur Conan Doyle to his former professor and mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in 1892. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War by David Loewenstein
RRP: $30.95$26.70Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about the topic of war. Contributors explore the... -
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami 9780451494641
RRP: $36.12$16.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451494641Author Haruki MurakamiFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 217mm *... -
Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Dr. Karen O'Brien 9780521774277
RRP: $50.30$42.91During the long eighteenth century, ideas of society and of social progress were first fully investigated. These investigations took place in the contexts of economic, theological, historical and literary writings which paid unprecedented attention to... -
Thomas Hardy: Interviews and Recollections by James Gibson 9780333247884
$56.77Hardy was an unknown architect in 1870, a famous novelist by 1895, and acknowledged as a great novelist, poet and epic-dramatist when he died in 1928. With fame came a never-ending stream of friends and writers anxious to record their impressions of the...