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Ephrem the Syrian: Select Poems Ephrem the Syrian 9780934893657
RRP: £30.00£25.64Ephrem the Syrian is the most important poet and theologian of the Syriac Christian tradition. His numerous hymns, homilies, and commentaries were highly influential for later generations, and his poetry continues to be broadly used in the liturgies of... -
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... -
Aldhelm: The Prose Works Michael Lapidge 9781843841999
RRP: £25.00£23.94Translation with notes of Aldhelm's famous treatise on virginity, and his less well-known letters. Aldhelm, born c.640 in Wessex, and becoming abbot of Malmesbury and later bishop of Sherborne, was the first English man of letters; up to 1100, his... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Dr. Jane Milling
£29.92Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s equips readers with a fresh assessment of the theatre and principle playwrights and plays from a decade when political and economic forces were changing society dramatically. It offers a broad survey of the context... -
Time and Tide: The Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine by Catherine Clay
RRP: £28.99£26.70This 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... -
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... -
Beowulf-A Poem Andrew Scheil (Professor of English, University of Minnesota) 9781641893916
RRP: £15.95£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641893916Author Andrew ScheilFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Picture Cycle by Masha Tupitsyn
RRP: £16.99£13.08Apologies 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 -
Perceforest: The Prehistory of King Arthur's Britain Nigel Bryant 9781843842620
RRP: £99.00£95.29A highly readable version of this remarkable and largely unexplored work. Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances. Justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a... -
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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan by Kevin J. H. Dettmar 9780521714945
RRP: £22.99£19.56A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421896
RRP: £43.00£38.22Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Responding to growing public concern about... -
The Vagrant Mood by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: £12.99£9.49"The Vagrant Mood" is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; and, from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery... -
Library of History: v. 10 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£23.76Remains 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;... -
Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2020: Land Lines by Will Abberley
RRP: £90.00£75.12Why do we speak so much of nature today when there is so little of it left? Prompted by this question, this study offers the first full-length exploration of modern British nature writing, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on... -
Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn 9780674387324
RRP: £34.95£32.37Ernest Hemingway was a mythic figure of overt masculinity and vibrant literary genius. He lived life on an epic scale, presenting to the world a character as compelling as the fiction he created. But behind it all lurked an insecure, troubled man. In... -
Illness as Narrative by Ann Jurecic
£41.66For most of literary history, personal confessions about illness were considered too intimate to share publicly. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a series of events set the stage for the emergence of the illness narrative. The increase of chronic... -
Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art by Willa Cather
RRP: £15.99£14.24"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... -
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... -
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... -
Elegy by David Kennedy, Jr. 9780415367776
RRP: £19.99£17.69Grief and mourning are generally considered to be private, yet universal instincts. But in a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. Providing an overview of the history... -
The Journey is Home: Notes from a Life on the Edge by John Sam Jones 9781914595103
RRP: £10.00£7.22In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It is story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period studying at Aberystwyth, to a scholarship ... -
Dear Father, Dear Son: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and Jr. by J. W. Ernst 9780823215591
RRP: £39.00£34.39Many biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. have been compiled- some have used bits of the original correspondence presented here and tried to show opposing interests between John D. Rockefeller and his son. Still others were... -
Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance by Joseph Roach
RRP: £30.00£23.29The colorful handmade costumes of beads and feathers swirl frenetically, as the Mardi Gras Indians dance through the streets of New Orleans in remembrance of a widely disputed cultural heritage. Iroquois Indians visit London in the early part of the... -
The Hidden Adult: Defining Children's Literature Perry Nodelman (Professor Emeritus, University of Winnipeg) 9780801889806
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... -
A Transnational Poetics by Jahan Ramazani
RRP: £24.00£23.03Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous-"stubbornly national," in T. S. Eliot's phrase, or "the most provincial of the arts," according to W. H. Auden. But in A Transnational Poetics, Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the... -
Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change by Ted Underwood
RRP: £24.00£23.03Just as a traveler crossing a continent won't sense the curvature of the earth, one lifetime of reading can't grasp the largest patterns organizing literary history. This is the guiding premise behind Distant Horizons, which uses the scope of data newly... -
The Vulture by Gerard Woodward
RRP: £10.99£7.87The vulture, the presiding genius of Gerard Woodward's collection, is at once sympathetic and awful, intimate and other. Woodward naturally positions himself at uncomfortable borders and thresholds, and in doing so alerts us to the flimsiness of the... -
Picturing Science, Producing Art by Peter Galison
RRP: £48.99£43.06Between the disciplines of art history and the history of science lies a growing field of inquiry into what science and art share as both image-making and knowledge-producing activities. The contributors of Picturing Science, Producing Art occupy this... -
The Domino and the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade: A Social Biography of a Costume by Meghan Kobza 9781009045551
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element presents new cultural, social, and economic perspectives on the eighteenth-century London masquerade through an in-depth analysis of the classic domino costume. Constructing the object biography of the domino through material, visual, and... -
Shakespeare's Stagecraft by John L. Styan 9780521094351
RRP: £42.99£36.43For many years, critics and students of Shakespeare have tended to stress that his plays are poetic structures embodying 'themes', and these structures have been analysed in great detail. Professor Styan advocates another approach. The plays were written... -
Earthway: A Native American Visionary's Path to Total Mind, Body, and Spirit Health by Mary Summer Rain 9780671706678
RRP: £18.99£17.37A new decade is upon us, the last of this century. Our eyes, minds and hearts have at long last returned to the earth: its environment and our own healthful survival as we walk and breathe upon us. The precious knowledge of the Native Americans has long... -
Introduction to Literary Analysis: A Complete Methodology Louis Hebert 9781032017266
RRP: £35.99£31.94This book provides a complete guide to analyzing literary works, from an introduction of basic principles to the finer details.Separated into three sections, the book covers:* Principles-this looks at what literary analysis is, its three main components,... -
Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires by Leslie Hill 9780415050487
RRP: £37.99£33.38Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The Lover Leslie Hill's... -
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature by Angelyn Mitchell 9780521675826
RRP: £26.99£22.80The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry... -
Education By Stone by Joao Cabral de Melo Neto
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974968018Author Joao Cabral de Melo NetoFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 388g -
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad 9781108835510
£96.55Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (1904) is widely considered his modernist masterpiece. The first of his major political novels, it depicts the effects of repeated revolution in a fictional South American state under the growing influence of the United States of... -
A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography John Marincola (Florida State University, USA) 9781444339239
RRP: £39.95£35.77This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades. Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by...