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Hellenistic Epigrams: A Selection by Alexander Sens
RRP: £26.99£23.44Greek 'literary' epigrams constitute one of the most versatile and dynamic poetic forms in the Hellenistic period. Originally modeled on the anonymous epitaphs and dedications inscribed on monuments throughout antiquity, these short poems came to include... -
George Herbert: 100 Poems by George Herbert
RRP: £24.99£10.47George Herbert (1593-1633) is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet in the English language. His profound influence can be seen in the lasting popularity of his verse. This selection of one hundred lyric poems by Herbert is designed for readers... -
Picture Cycle by Masha Tupitsyn
RRP: £16.99£12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901047Author Masha TupitsynFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm -
Roadworks: Medieval Britain, Medieval Roads by Valerie Allen
RRP: £90.00£64.82Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland. It looks afresh at the relationship between the road as a material condition of daily life and the... -
Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres by Jahan Ramazani
RRP: £25.00£23.94What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system - "suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse," in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry and Its Others, Jahan Ramazani reveals modern and contemporary... -
Letters of Louis MacNeice by Louis MacNeice
RRP: £35.00£23.83Louis MacNeice is increasingly recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his work has been a defining influence upon a generation of Irish poets that includes Derek Mahon, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon.The Selected Letters... -
England in 1819: Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism by James K. Chandler
RRP: £32.00£31.51The year 1819 was the "annus mirabilis" for many British Romantic writers, and the "annus terribilis" for demonstrators protesting the state of parliamentary representation. In 1819 Keats wrote what many consider his greatest poetry. This was the year of... -
Structuralism in Literature: An Introduction by Robert Scholes 9780300018509
£18.10A distinguished literary critic explores the linguistic background of structuralism, its historical connections to romanticism and Russian formalism, and the theory and practice of the leading contemporary structuralist literary critics... -
Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A Selection by Richard Hunter
RRP: £27.99£24.27Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed or painted on stone. These largely anonymous poems shed rich light on areas such as ancient moral values, religious ideas, gender relations and attitudes, as well as... -
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll by Gillian Beer
RRP: £80.00£76.61In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. What is often overlooked, however, is that Carroll conceived his Alice books during... -
The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives by Melanie Micir
RRP: £35.00£27.74How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history It's impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the diverse movers and shakers of the early twentieth century... -
Compact Disc by Robert Barry
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid the grounds... -
Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism by Hongwei Bao 9780367462840
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China's post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these... -
Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art by Willa Cather
RRP: £10.99£9.60"Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there-that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears in Willa Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather... -
As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine by H Murav 9780253068798
RRP: £74.00£64.85An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais by John O'Brien 9780521687287
RRP: £23.99£20.37The Franciscan monk, humanist and physician Francois Rabelais, who flourished in sixteenth-century France, is widely considered as the Renaissance's greatest comic writer. His work - including most notably Gargantua and Pantagruel - continues to enthral... -
Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories by Diana Fuss
RRP: £43.99£38.84Lesbians and gays have gone from "coming out," to "acting up," to "outing," meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in Inside/Out employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and... -
Gayatri Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason by Stephen Morton 9780745632858
RRP: £17.99£16.04Gayatri Chakravorty Spivaks seminal contribution to contemporary thought defies disciplinary boundaries. From her early translations of Derrida to her subsequent engagement with Marxism, feminism and postcolonial studies and her recent work on human... -
Full Volume by Robert Crawford 9780224080873
RRP: £12.00£8.44Holding in balance the ecological and the technological, ancient and modern, Full Volume sings languages and cultures, people and habitats burgeoning on the brink of extinction. From revved-up battle-cry to nervous whisper, these lyrical poems praise... -
Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity: A Translation of Andrea de Jorio's La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano by Andrea de Jorio
RRP: £21.99£20.19"I had heard about this book for years. The person who put the word out, at least in lay circles, was probably Luigi Barzini, in The Italians (1964). Praising his countrymen's gift for talking with their hands, Barzini lamented that so little had been... -
The Hidden Adult: Defining Children's Literature by Perry Nodelman
RRP: £35.00£29.97What exactly is a children's book? How is children's literature defined as a genre? A leading scholar presents close readings of six classic stories to answer these questions and offer a clear definition of children's writing as a distinct literary form... -
The Learned Banqueters: v. VIII: General Indexes by Athenaeus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of ... -
Plato: Menexenus by David Sansone
RRP: £28.99£25.82Plato challenges his readers by depicting an elderly Socrates as an enthusiastic student of rhetoric who has learned from his teacher Aspasia to recite an inspiring funeral oration, an oration that conspicuously refers to events occurring after the... -
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
£32.89"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass,... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume II: Prose: 1939-1948 by W. H. Auden 9780691089355
RRP: £88.00£69.75W. H. Auden's first ten years in the United States were marked by rapid and extensive change in his life and thought. He became an American citizen, fell in love with Chester Kallman, and began to reflect on American culture and to explore the ideas of... -
The Victorian Literature Handbook by Alex Warwick 9780826495778
£30.33This is a one-stop resource offering a complete textbook for courses in Victorian literature."The Victorian Literature Handbook" is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the Victorian period. It provides a... -
Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History by Carmen Casaliggi
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature. As a broad global movement, Romanticism strongly... -
Individuation in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise von Franz 9781570626135
RRP: £27.95£16.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570626135Author Marie-Louise von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Stephen King: A Biography by Albert Rolls 9780313345722
£38.39Now known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience. For much of his career he chose to remain in the small-town Maine of his... -
The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture and the Business of Inner Meaning by Deidre Lynch
RRP: £30.00£29.25At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, characters in books became identified with the reader, as friends with... -
Chasing the Light: A Novel of Antarctica by Jesse Blackadder 9780732296049
£15.11A fictional recounting of the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, and her extraordinary fight to get there. A fictional recounting of the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica,... -
African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory by Tejumola Olaniyan 9781405112017
RRP: £39.95£36.04This is the first anthology to bring together the key texts of African literary theory and criticism. Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locateCovers all genres and critical schoolsProvides the intellectual context for understanding... -
John Cage: Composed in America by Marjorie Perloff
RRP: £27.00£26.47When the avant-gardist John Cage died, he was already the subject of many interviews, memoirs and discussions of his contribution to music, music theory and performance practice. This text includes a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has... -
The First English Bible: The Text and Context of the Wycliffite Versions by Mary Dove 9780521175470
RRP: £36.99£30.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy by Michael Robertson 9780691202860
RRP: £20.00£15.89The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayIn this lively literary history, Michael Robertson introduces readers to a vital strain of... -
Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension by Dr Neil Cohn 9781350156043
RRP: £26.99£23.44**Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work** Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they really, and how universally... -
Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology by Jane Dowson
RRP: £37.99£33.38Where were the women of the so-called `Auden Generation'?During this era of rapidly changing gender roles,social values and world politics,women produced a rich variety of poetry.But until now their work has largely been lost or ignored;in Women's Poetry... -
The Routledge Concise History of World Literature by Theo D'Haen
RRP: £35.99£31.69This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo D'haen... -
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Autistic Adults by Adam Paul Valerius
RRP: £28.00£24.29Research related to transition and support needs for autistic adults remains limited. The purpose of this study was to understand the hopes, dreams, aspirations, challenges, and lived experiences of autistic adults. Academic literature has largely... -
Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene": A Reading Guide by Andrew Zurcher
RRP: £21.99£20.11Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience. This Guide will help new readers to understand and enjoy The Faerie Queene, drawing attention to its various ironies, its self-reflexive construction, its visual emphasis and the timeless...