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Derek Mahon: A Study of His Poetry by Christopher Steare 9781910996089
RRP: $33.58$32.72Apologies 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 Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman by Andrew Cole
RRP: $50.38$42.78Piers Plowman has long been considered one of the greatest poems of medieval England. Current scholarship on this alliterative masterpiece looks very different from that available even a decade ago. New information about the manuscripts of the poem, new... -
Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age by Jessica Pressman
RRP: $52.50$41.14Twenty-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... -
The Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge by Paul Davis 9780300046649
$94.54""This excellent, multilayered analysis of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843) and its myriad adaptations, interpretations, and reinterpretations illustrates that the classic story was 'only the beginning of the larger culture-text of the Carol... -
The Politics of Postmodernism by Linda Hutcheon 9780415280167
RRP: $75.58$66.55This classic text remains one of the clearest and most incisive introductions to postmodernism. Perhaps more importantly, it is a compelling discussion of why postmodernism matters. Working through the issue of representation in art forms from fiction to... -
Don Paterson Ben Wilkinson 9781800855373
$73.50Don Paterson is one of Britain's leading contemporary poets. A popular writer as well as a formidably intelligent one, he has won both a dedicated readership and most of Britain's major poetry prizes, including the T. S. Eliot Prize on two occasions,... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1960s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Steve Nicholson
$62.83Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a... -
De Re Rustica: v. 2: Bks.V-IX by Columella
RRP: $52.40$49.90A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military ... -
Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century by Isiah Lavender, III 9780814255964
$80.01Apologies 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)... -
The Major Declamations, Volume II by Quintilian 9780674997417
RRP: $52.40$49.90Mock trial-Roman style.The Major Declamations stand out for their unique contribution to our understanding of the final stage in Greco-Roman rhetorical training. These exercises, in which students learned how to compose and deliver speeches on behalf... -
The Routledge Concise History of World Literature by Theo D'Haen
RRP: $75.58$66.55This 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... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy by Anthony J. Cascardi
RRP: $48.28$41.08Literature 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... -
Black Women Writers by Evans 9780385171250
$41.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385171250Author Mari EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work by Rachel Falconer 9781474431453
RRP: $50.38$45.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474431453Author Rachel FalconerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Library of History: v. 8 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: $52.40$49.90Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
William Hope Hodgson: Voices from the Borderland by Massimo Berruti 9781614981060
RRP: $52.50$45.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614981060Author Massimo BerrutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Against the Professors by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: $52.40$49.90A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for... -
Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Society by Northrop Frye
RRP: $25.18$22.97This collection of a dozen major essays written in recent year is vintage Frye-the fine distillation of a lifetime of originative thinking about literature and its context. The essays in Spiritus Mundi-the title comes from one of Yeat's best known poems,... -
New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life by Christopher Rovee 9781531505127
RRP: $52.48$45.51New 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: $49.33$35.97Oxford 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... -
Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking World Charles Forsdick 9781846310553
RRP: $46.20$41.77In the late 1990's, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologization and an overemphasis on the English-language literatures led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for... -
Prince Valiant Vol.2: 1939-1940 by Hal Foster
RRP: $73.48$50.86Apologies 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 -
Victorian Soundscapes by John M. Picker 9780195151916
RRP: $75.58$53.03Far from the hushed restraint we associate with the Victorians, their world pulsated with sound. This book shows how, in more ways than one, Victorians were hearing things. The representations close listeners left of their soundscapes offered new... -
Ecogothic by Andrew Smith 9781526106896
RRP: $41.98$36.98This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the... -
The Indian English Novel: Nation, History, and Narration by Priyamvada Gopal 9780199544370
$82.03The 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... -
Joyce and Wagner: A Study of Influence by Timothy Peter Martin 9780521119719
RRP: $83.98$69.85In 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 Crime Fiction Handbook by Peter Messent
RRP: $41.90$37.11The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written... -
The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England Nicholas Perkins 9781526167163
RRP: $52.50$37.63This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the... -
Love Itself: In the Letter Box Helene Cixous 9780745639895
RRP: $31.48$28.94Love's memories, love recalling itself in letters lost and found over an interval of forty years: Cixous's writer-narrator advances here far into a labyrinth of passions long ago delivered and yet still arriving through the mail, through letters and... -
Writings on Art and Poetical Theory by Fernando Pessoa 9781940625508
RRP: $34.65$26.33Apologies 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)... -
Tragedy John Drakakis 9781032013800
RRP: $41.98$37.72Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history.Tragedy... -
A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000 by Christopher Morash 9780521646826
RRP: $81.88$69.85While 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... -
Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art by Larne Abse Gogarty 9781642599008
RRP: $62.98$41.73Usable Pasts zeros in on two periods in the United States that saw the state increase its financial support for socially engaged works of culture. In the 1990s the political artworks by Suzanne lacy, Rick Lowe, and Martha Rosler helped usher in an era of... -
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing by Arnold Weinstein 9780691177304
RRP: $52.50$41.77A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our livesWhy do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us... -
The Death of the Critic by Ronan McDonald 9780826492807
$29.99The critic has long been a reviled figure, at best the mere handmaiden of the 'creative' arts, at worst a parasite upon them. For playwright Brendan Behan, critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it is done. They have seen it done every day... -
The World's Lightest Motorcycle by Won Yi
RRP: $23.08$15.96A successor to Korean feminist poets like Kim Hyesoon, Yi Won frequently writes about the perilousness of maintaining one's human identity in a high-tech, digital environment. In this debut book in English, her poems range from avant-garde prose poems to... -
Faux Pas by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: $52.48$46.22Published in France in 1943, Faux Pas is the first collection of Maurice Blanchot's essays on literature and language, consisting of fifty-four short pieces that were originally issued as reviews in literary journals, and one long introductory meditation... -
Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing by G. Thomas Couser 9780801488634
RRP: $62.98$56.07"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects-persons who are liable to exposure by someone with whom they are involved in an intimate or trust-based relationship, unable to represent themselves in writing, or unable to offer... -
Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity by Christopher L Miller
RRP: $50.40$48.36Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in... -
Beowulf: A New Translation by Meghan Purvis
RRP: $18.88$13.52PBS Recommended Translation for Spring 2013The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf is brought to life by American poet Meghan Purvis in a vigorous contemporary translation. Written across a range of poetic forms and voices, this rendering captures the thrust...