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Individuation in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise von Franz 9781570626135
RRP: £27.95£16.60Apologies 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... -
Black Poets by Dudley F. Randall
RRP: £7.99£6.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553275636Author Dudley RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 173mm... -
A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein by Karen Zumhagen-Yekple
RRP: £28.00£27.39Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his... -
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,... -
Miklos Radnoti: The Complete Poetry in Hungarian and English by Miklos Radnoti 9780786469536
RRP: £28.99£23.38This book contains the complete poems in Hungarian and in English translation of Hungary's great modern poet, Miklos Radnoti, murdered at the age of 35 during the Holocaust. His earliest poems, the six books published during his lifetime, and the poems... -
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... -
Soul Says: On Recent Poetry by Helen Vendler 9780674821477
£27.72Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children". View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. To know the poetry of our time, to look through... -
Thomas Carlyle by John Morrow 9781852855444
RRP: £31.99£31.94Thomas Carlyle was a major figure in Victorian literature and a unique commentator on nineteenth-century life. Born in humble circumstances in the Scottish village of Ecclefechan in 1795, his rise to fame was marked by fierce determination and the... -
The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy by David L. Eng
RRP: £21.99£19.49In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of "queer liberalism"-the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and... -
The Test Drive by Avital Ronell
RRP: £21.99£19.59The Test Drive deals with the war perpetrated by highly determined reactionary forces on science and research. How does the government at once promote and prohibit scientific testing and undercut the importance of experimentation? To what extent is... -
Our Lady of 121st Street: Jesus Hopped the a Train and in Arabia, We'd All Be Kings by Stephen Adly Guirgis
RRP: £20.00£13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571211883Author Stephen Adly GuirgisFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Faber & FaberPublisher Faber & FaberWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 9780679433132
RRP: £35.00£23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679433132Author Dante AlighieriFormat HardbackPage Count 960Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm)... -
Proust for Beginners by Stephen Bachmann 9781939994448
RRP: £11.99£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994448Author Stephen BachmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Crossovers Expanded, Volume 1 by Sean Lee Levin 9780990567394
RRP: £29.00£25.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990567394Author Sean Lee LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Meteor HousePublisher Meteor HouseWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Cheerfulness - A Literary and Cultural History by Timothy Hampton
RRP: £25.00£19.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130604Author Timothy HamptonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 158mm * 23mm -
A Short History of English Literature Robert Barnard (Freelance writer, and formerly University of Tromso) 9780631190882
RRP: £39.95£35.31Thoroughly updated, this book remains the best overall survey of English literature available. Brings this successful book up to date with new material on, among others, Caryl Churchill, Brian Friel, Martin Amis and Graham Swift Very accessible About the... -
Early Modern English Literature by Jason Scott-Warren 9780745627526
RRP: £22.99£22.85When we engage with the writings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, we encounter a culture radically unfamiliar to us at the start of the twenty-first century. The past is a foreign country, and so too are many of its texts. This readable and... -
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'S Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment: The Early Modern 'Fated Sky' by Sophie Chiari 9781474442534
RRP: £27.99£22.61This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people's relations to meteorological phenomena.Book... -
What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon by Ankhi Mukherjee 9780804795258
RRP: £27.99£24.52What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century... -
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... -
How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems by Mikeas Sánchez 9781639550203
RRP: £12.99£8.87The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sanchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern... -
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition by Edith Hamilton 9780316223331
RRP: £14.99£13.75Edith Hamilton's MYTHOLOGY succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity... -
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 Case of Sherlock Holmes: Secrets and Lies in Conan Doyle's Detective Fiction by Andrew Glazzard 9781474431309
RRP: £23.99£21.85The Case of Sherlock Holmes uncovers what is untold, partly told, wrongly told, or deliberately concealed in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes saga.Book InformationISBN 9781474431309Author Andrew GlazzardFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh... -
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... -
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... -
The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two: The Reader-Writer by Warren Boutcher
RRP: £29.49£27.15This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in... -
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... -
Staging the Renaissance by David Scott Kastan
RRP: £41.99£36.75The 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... -
What Does a Woman Want?: Reading and Sexual Difference by Shoshana Felman
RRP: £23.00£20.67'What does a woman want?'-the question Freud famously formulated in a letter to Marie Bonaparte-is a quintessentially male question that arises from women's resistance to their place in a patriarchal society. But what might it mean, asks Shoshana Felman,... -
Marie de France: Poetry by Marie De France 9780393932683
£20.30Marie 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... -
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House by Isabel Hofmeyr
RRP: £17.99£15.90In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dockside customs officials... -
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik Von Mossner 9780814254011
£36.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254011Author Alexa Weik Von MossnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
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... -
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom
RRP: £13.99£11.23On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan... -
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... -
Latour and the Humanities by Rita Felski
RRP: £30.50£27.56How does the work of influential theorist Bruno Latour offer a fresh angle on the practices and purposes of the humanities?In recent years, defenses of the humanities have tended to argue along predictable lines: the humanities foster empathy, the...