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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry by Jahan Ramazani
RRP: €28.55€24.24The 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: €92.82€84.82The 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 Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells 9780393922424
RRP: €17.84€15.98Including several images in various media to help paint a fuller picture of Howells's time and place. A rich selection of correspondence to and from Howells, some material from his notebooks, and a section detailing his changes to two specific... -
Staging the Renaissance by David Scott Kastan
RRP: €49.97€43.73The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed. The volume unites some of the most challenging issues in contemporary... -
Fantasy by Lucie Armitt
RRP: €23.79€21.05Fantasy provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the study of this fascinating field. Covering literature, film, television, ballet, light opera and visual art and featuring a historical overview from Ovid to the Toy Story franchise, this book... -
The Svetlana Boym Reader by Svetlana Boym
€49.14Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflective immigrant; her most resonant book, The Future of Nostalgia, was deeply rooted in that experience. Even... -
Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Dr. Karen O'Brien 9780521774277
RRP: €46.40€39.58During 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... -
Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, 2nd edition by Sebastian Groes 9781441139221
€31.45Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working today. His books are both critically - and academically - acclaimed and embraced by readers across the world. Although primarily a novelist, he has also written short... -
Thomas Hardy: Interviews and Recollections by James Gibson 9780333247884
€52.37Hardy 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... -
The Theory of the Avant-Garde by Renato Poggioli 9780674882164
RRP: €47.54€38.14Convinced that all aspects of modern culture have been affected by avant-garde art, Renato Poggioli explores the relationship between the avant-garde and civilization. Historical parallels and modern examples from all the arts are used to show how the... -
Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age by Jessica Pressman
RRP: €29.75€23.31Twenty-first-century culture is obsessed with books. In a time when many voices have joined to predict the death of print, books continue to resurface in new and unexpected ways. From the proliferation of "shelfies" to Jane Austen-themed leggings and... -
'A Miracle of Learning': Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning: Essays in Honour of William O'Sullivan by Dr Daibhi O Croinin
RRP: €42.83€38.19This volume celebrates the work of William O'Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, made more accessible and elucidated the documents in his care. The manuscripts throw new light on the society of Ireland,... -
Shakespeare's 'Lady Editors': A New History of the Shakespearean Text by Molly G. Yarn
RRP: €41.64€36.28The basic history of the Shakespearean editorial tradition is familiar and well-established. For nearly three centuries, men - most of them white and financially privileged - ensconced themselves in private and hard-to-access libraries, hammering out... -
Shakespeare and Forgetting by Peter Holland 9781350211537
€38.44What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all trivial fond records'? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be linked to forgiveness, such as when in The Winter's Tale... -
New Wave Shakespeare on Screen by Thomas Cartelli 9780745633930
RRP: €27.36€23.99The past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in 'staging' Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen introduces and applies the new analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this new wave... -
An Exploding World by Rankin 9780995574182
RRP: €53.55€50.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995574182Author RankinFormat HardbackPage Count 68Imprint Rankin Publishing LtdPublisher Rankin Photography -
Arthurian Romance: A Short Introduction by Derek Pearsall 9780631233206
RRP: €35.64€32.67This witty and accessible book traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times, explaining its enduring appeal. Traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times. Covers art and films as well as the great... -
Abysses by Pascal Quignard
RRP: €15.46€13.64Prolific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as something unique. It consists, he says, "neither of philosophical argumentation, nor short learned essays, nor novelistic narration," but comes, rather,... -
Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century by Isiah Lavender, III 9780814255964
€45.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255964Author PH D Lisa YaszekFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture by Mitchum Huehls 9781421423104
RRP: €36.30€32.57Neoliberalism has been a buzzword in literary studies for well over a decade, but its meaning remains ambiguous and its salience contentious. In Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith offer a... -
Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling by Antonino Ferro
RRP: €47.59€41.72Is psychoanalysis a type of literature? Can telling 'stories' help us to get at the truth?Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between... -
The Cambridge Companion to Allegory by Rita Copeland 9780521680820
RRP: €32.12€27.13Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy by Anthony J. Cascardi
RRP: €27.36€23.28Literature and philosophy have long shared an interest in questions of truth, value, and form. And yet, from ancient times to the present, they have often sharply diverged, both in their approach to these questions and in their relationship to one... -
Understanding the Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism by Neil D Isaacs 9780618422531
RRP: €23.79€16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618422531Author Neil D IsaacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Harvest PublicationsPublisher Harvest PublicationsWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life by Christopher Rovee 9781531505127
RRP: €29.74€25.79New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today's impassioned debates about method back to the discipline's early professional era, when an unprecedented makeover of American higher education with... -
Horace's Odes by Professor Richard Tarrant 9780195156768
RRP: €27.95€20.38Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context and aims to offer a balanced and... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume V: Prose: 1963-1968 by W. H. Auden 9780691151717
RRP: €73.78€57.86This fifth volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains his most personally revealing essays, the ones in which he wrote for the first time about... -
Prince Valiant Vol.2: 1939-1940 by Hal Foster
RRP: €41.64€27.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606993484Author Hal FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1043g -
Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker 9780801881855
RRP: €45.22€41.42Having 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... -
The Cypria by Malcolm Davies 9780674237919
RRP: €20.17€16.48The Cypria, so named because its poet supposedly came from the island of Cyprus, was an early Greek epic that is known to us primarily through quotations and references to passages by later authors, as well as through a prose summary of its plot and... -
The Indian English Novel: Nation, History, and Narration by Priyamvada Gopal 9780199544370
€46.48The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. It is often... -
Staging Shakespeare's Violence: My Cue to Fight: Domestic Fury by Seth Duerr
RRP: €35.70€24.93My Cue to Fight is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth examination of how the greatest playwright in the English language employed not only psychological brutality but also physical violence throughout his works. Written ideally for... -
Joyce and Wagner: A Study of Influence by Timothy Peter Martin 9780521119719
RRP: €47.59€39.58In correspondence and conversation, James Joyce kept himself aloof from his age, and denigrated recent art and thought at almost every opportunity. 'In the last two hundred years,' he declared, 'we haven't had a great thinker.' This book reveals that in... -
The Medieval World View: An Introduction by William R. Cook 9780195373684
RRP: €102.33€95.97The Medieval World View, Third Edition, presents the presuppositions of medieval society in a systematic fashion by integrating brief, self-contained selections from primary texts and carefully captioned photographs into a narrative of the medieval world... -
Writings on Art and Poetical Theory by Fernando Pessoa 9781940625508
RRP: €19.64€14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625508Author Fernando PessoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)... -
The Historical Renaissance: New Essays on Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture by Heather Dubrow
RRP: €47.60€45.87The Historical Renaissance both exemplifies and examines the most influential current in contemporary studies of the English Renaissance: the effort to analyze the interplay between literature, history, and politics. The broad and varied manifestations... -
A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000 by Christopher Morash 9780521646826
RRP: €46.40€39.58While most accounts of Irish theatre begin with the Abbey theatre, Chris Morash's comprehensive study goes back three centuries earlier to Ireland's first theatre. Written in an accessible style, yet drawing extensively on unpublished sources, it traces... -
Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen
RRP: €73.78€63.74Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics based, for the first time, on the two concepts of emptiness (J.ku) and temporality (mujo) that ground the medieval practice and understanding of poetry. It clarifies the unique... -
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack Zipes 9780691153384
€46.49If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot... -
Reform Acts: Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832-1867 by Chris R. Vanden Bossche 9781421412085
RRP: €54.15€47.91Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather than theoretical perspective, Chris R. Vanden Bossche investigates how particular assumptions involving...