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M: Writings, 1967-72 by John Cage 9780714511351
RRP: £15.95£13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714511351Author John CageFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov by Martin Hagglund 9780674066328
RRP: £53.95£42.87Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time-whether through an epiphany of memory,... -
Friedrich Nietzsche by Lee Spinks
RRP: £19.99£17.69It is difficult to imagine a world without common sense, the distinction between truth and falsehood, the belief in some form of morality or an agreement that we are all human. But Friedrich Nietzsche did imagine such a world, and his work has become a... -
Shakespeare and the Political Way by Elizabeth Frazer
RRP: £26.49£22.39Studies of Shakespeare and politics often ask the question whether his dramas are on the side of aristocratic or monarchical sovereign authority, or are on the side of those who resist; whether he endorses a standard view of male and patriarchal... -
Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970 by M. Hutton 9780230249387
£29.35Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent contemporary British writers, including Hanif Kureishi, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. This expanded second edition has been revised and updated throughout, and now... -
Shakespeare and Ecology by Randall Martin 9780199567010
£27.89Shakespeare and Ecology is the first book to explore the topical contexts that shaped the environmental knowledge and politics of Shakespeare and his audiences. Early modern England experienced unprecedented environmental challenges including climate... -
Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works by Anne Hiebert Alton 9780786474646
RRP: £21.99£17.97This collection of critical essays applies a wide range of critical frameworks to the analysis of prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Essays focus on topics such as Pratchett's treatment of noise and silence and their political... -
The Stechlin by Theodor Fontane
RRP: £32.99£29.23First English translation of the final work of Theodor Fontane, one of Germany's most significant novelists. Theodor Fontane (1819-98), widely regarded as Germany's most significant novelist between Goethe and Thomas Mann, pioneered the German novel... -
Children's Literature in Hitler's Germany: The Cultural Policy of National Socialism by Christa Kamenetsky 9780821423646
RRP: £25.99£22.49Between 1933 and 1945, National Socialists enacted a focused effort to propagandize children's literature by distorting existing German values and traditions with the aim of creating a homogenous "folk community." A vast censorship committee in Berlin... -
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock 9781107031869
£106.03Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of his novels to appear for more than half a century... -
Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism by Maud Ellmann 9780582083479
RRP: £49.99£47.84This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, particularly by the... -
Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire by Paul A. Cantor
RRP: £21.00£20.71For more than forty years, Paul Cantor's Shakespeare's Rome has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the first to... -
Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children's Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls by Mitali Perkins
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506469102Author Mitali PerkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History's Nightmares by Robert Mighall 9780199262182
RRP: £73.00£60.35This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic... -
The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte by Emily Bronte 9780231103473
RRP: £28.00£21.80In 1846 a small book entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bellappeared on the British Literary scene. The three psuedonymous poets, the Bronte sisters went on to unprecedented success with such novels as Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and Jane Eyre,... -
Flaubert: Madame Bovary by Stephen C. Heath
RRP: £23.99£20.94Madame Bovary was one of the most influential literary achievements of the nineteenth century and gained immediate notoriety through its questioning of marriage, sex, and the role of women. Stephen Heath shows how this landmark text captures and... -
The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Bronte Wrote Her Masterpiece by John Pfordresher 9780393248876
RRP: £20.99£17.75In this perceptive book, John Pfordresher shares the enthralling story of how Charlotte Bronte wrote her masterpiece and why she tried so vehemently to disown it. What few people knew then-and even fewer know today-was that as she tended her invalid... -
Works: v. 3 by Demosthenes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry by Derek Attridge
RRP: £35.99£35.94The contemporary reader of English poetry is able to take pleasure in the sounds and movements of the English language in works written over the past eight centuries, and to find poems that convey powerful emotions and vivid images from this entire... -
Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage by Gitte Marianne Hansen
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book is a timely and expansive volume on Murakami Haruki, arguably Japan's most high profile contemporary writer. With contributions from prominent Murakami scholars, this book approaches the works of Murakami Haruki through interdisciplinary... -
Uncle John's Fourth Bathroom Reader by Bathroom Reader's Hysterical Society 9780312064846
RRP: £19.99£12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312064846Author Bathroom Reader's Hysterical SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins... -
Appropriate: A Provocation by Paisley Rekdal 9781324003588
RRP: £12.99£9.95How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a... -
Marie de France: Poetry by Marie De France 9780393932683
£19.67Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and who lived in England during the twelfth century. Prominent among the earliest poets writing in the French vernacular, she helped shape the style and genres of later medieval poetry... -
Victorian Alchemy: Science, Magic and Ancient Egypt by Eleanor Dobson 9781787358492
RRP: £25.00£21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787358492Author Eleanor DobsonFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 530g -
Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled by Nicholas Allen 9780198857877
£92.76The island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, beginning with the late imperial experiences of Jack and... -
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande by Kitty Wheater 9781912128525
RRP: £6.50£6.11The history of anthropology is, to a large extent, the history of differing modes of interpretation. As anthropologists have long known, examining, analyzing and recording cultures in the quest to understand humankind as a whole is a vastly complex task,... -
Literature in the Ashes of History by Cathy Caruth 9781421411552
RRP: £23.00£20.35Cathy Caruth juxtaposes the writings of psychoanalysts, literary and political theorists, and literary authors who write in a century faced by a new kind of history, one that is made up of events that seem to undo, rather than produce, their own... -
New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas: "A writer of words, and nothing else"? by Rhian Barfoot
RRP: £24.99£18.80Dylan Thomas's reputation precedes him. In keeping with his claim that he held 'a beast, an angel, and a madman in him', interpretations of his work have ranged from solemn adoration to exaggerated mythologising. His many voices continue to reverberate... -
History of My Life: Volumes 9 and 10 by Giacomo Casanova
£43.43Volumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia join the roster of... -
Stephen Greenblatt by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: £19.99£17.69Stephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent of 'new historicism', a dynamic critical movement which rejects the traditional reliance on individual canonical texts, exploring a multitude of other, more marginal works and voices. Questioning not just... -
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams 9780801841064
£26.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801841064Author J. N. AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams) 397g -
Anthony Munday and Civic Culture: Theatre, History and Power in Early Modern London 1580-1633 by Tracey Hill 9780719063831
RRP: £19.99£17.61Anthony Munday and civic culture is a full-scale study of a fascinating but hitherto neglected author set in the context of the city where he was born, lived and worked. Munday was a contemporary of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Dekker, amongst... -
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry by Stephen M. Hart
RRP: £25.99£21.99The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive,... -
God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945 by Claude Rawson 9780198184256
£102.46We are obsessed with 'barbarians'. They are the 'not us', who don't speak our language, or 'any language', whom we depise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whose innocence or vigour we... -
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature by W. Michelle Wang 9780367619053
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field... -
The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman by Ezra Greenspan
RRP: £22.99£19.56The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in Whitman's life and art. Their varying approaches mirror the diversity of contemporary scholarship and the... -
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... -
Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872-1927 by Daniel Albright
£26.93How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great... -
Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 2: Fourth-Century and Hellenistic Poets: Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia by Martin J. Cropp 9781802078237
RRP: £39.99£36.06This is the second volume of a collection which includes all the significant remains of tragedies produced by the contemporaries and successors of the three classic Greek tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides). Greek texts and sources are... -
Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550-1650 by Rebecca Laroche 9781138250529
RRP: £53.99£46.87The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals, Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts also looks at reasons...