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Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 2: Fourth-Century and Hellenistic Poets: Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia by Martin J. Cropp 9781802078237
RRP: €47.59€42.91This 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: €64.25€55.78The 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... -
Film Violence - History, Ideology, Genre by Jim Kendrick 9781906660260
RRP: €21.41€18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906660260Author Jim KendrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 200mm *... -
Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers by James W. Hall
RRP: €23.80€16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970951Author James W. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children by Sam George 9781526171979
RRP: €23.80€21.23In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, wild children and werewolves as portrayed in... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon by Peter McCullough 9780199237531
RRP: €148.75€142.21Scholarly interest in the early modern sermon has flourished in recent years, driven by belated recognition of the crucial importance of preaching to religious, cultural, and political life in early modern Britain. The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern... -
The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling
RRP: €35.64€28.30A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work.Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work... -
Analyzing Prose by Richard A. Lanham 9780826461902
€51.19What is a noun style? A verb style? A hypotactic or a paratactic one? "Analyzing Prose" supplies detailed, carefully charted answers to these questions. It teaches a student of prose style how and where to begin, and explains the difference... -
The Gender of Modernity by Rita Felski 9780674341944
RRP: €41.59€33.55In an innovative and invigorating exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Rita Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity. She also calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either... -
American Fiction Since 1940 by Tony Hilfer 9780582493506
RRP: €23.79€23.55In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction. He analyses the major modes and genres of writing, from realist to postmodernist metafiction and black humour, the fiction of social protest, women's... -
To Ireland, I by Paul Muldoon
RRP: €17.84€11.66The four pieces that make up this work are taken from Muldoon's Oxford Clarendon Lectures of 1998. Together, they take the form of an A-Z, or abecedary of Irish literature, in which his imagination forges links between disparate aspects and individuals... -
The Rise of the Russian Novel: Studies in the Russian Novel from Eugene Onegin to War and Peace by Richard Freeborn 9780521097383
RRP: €44.02€37.26This introduction to the study of the Russian novel demonstrates how the form evolved from imitative beginnings to the point in the 1860s when it reached maturity and established itself as part of the European tradition. Professor Freeborn considers... -
Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 by Friedrich A. Kittler
RRP: €35.69€32.01This is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communications systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature. The author focuses on the differences between... -
Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars by Alison Light
RRP: €59.49€51.77Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand... -
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet by Christien Garcia 9781912453122
RRP: €7.74€7.27In this book, Sedgwick examines texts from Europe and America such as Wilde, Nietzsche and Proust and considers the historical moment when sexual orientation came to be as important a signifier of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In doing... -
The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons by Carolyn J. Lesjak
RRP: €29.74€25.79The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of "slow violence" that transformed lands, labor, and basic concepts of public life leading into the nineteenth century. The Afterlife of Enclosure... -
The Case for Edward de Vere as Shakespeare by Geoffrey Eyre 9780955460845
RRP: €18.45€15.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955460845Author Geoffrey EyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Geoffrey EyrePublisher Geoffrey EyreWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
The Red Badge of Courage: A Norton Critical Edition by Stephen Crane
€19.39The Fourth Edition offers a broadened and restructured "Backgrounds and Sources" section that illuminates the social and intellectual climate of the 1890s and includes thought-provoking material by Jay Martin, Charles J. LaRocca, and Perry Lentz on... -
Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times by Andrew D Kaufman 9781451644715
RRP: €19.04€12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451644715Author Andrew D KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative: Updated Edition by Alessandro Barchiesi 9780691176123
RRP: €22.60€17.99The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated. Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative is the first English translation of one of the most important... -
Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory by Marianne Hirsch
RRP: €35.70€27.72The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. Twenty-four... -
D.H. Lawrence by Fiona Becket 9780415202527
RRP: €45.21€39.72So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach. D. H. Lawrence is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide which:*... -
Nick Dear Plays 1: Art of Success; In the Ruins; Zenobia; Turn of the Screw by Nick Dear
RRP: €22.60€15.27This first collection of Nick Dear's work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art... -
Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism Scott M. Reznick 9780198891956
RRP: €83.30€75.85Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism explores how American Romanticism developed in response to pervasive conflicts over democracy's moral dimensions in the early republic and antebellum eras. By recovering the long-under-examined... -
A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World by Rubina Raja
RRP: €54.68€48.21A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity, primarily in the Greco-Roman world. * Features... -
The Creolization of Theory by Francoise Lionnet
RRP: €27.36€23.81Introducing this collection of essays, Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back-investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines-offers a way for scholars in the humanities to... -
Roman History: v. 6 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: €29.69€29.20A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and... -
Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer by Roger Chartier
RRP: €23.79€20.87In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between patronage... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel by Efrain Kristal 9780521532198
RRP: €36.88€31.86The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several... -
Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton by Michael C. Schoenfeldt 9780521669023
RRP: €41.64€36.09Michael Schoenfeldt's fascinating study explores the close relationship between selves and bodies, psychological inwardness and corporeal processes, as they are represented in early modern English literature. After Galen, the predominant medical paradigm... -
Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction by Tom Shippey 9781781382615
€53.44An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue, first, that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as... -
Writing Shame: Gender, Contemporary Literature and Negative Affect by Kaye Mitchell 9781474461856
RRP: €30.93€25.06Through readings of an array of recent texts literary and popular, fictional and autofictional, realist and experimental this book maps out a contemporary, Western, shame culture. It unpicks the complex triangulation of shame, gender and writing, and... -
Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English by Mary Conde 9780312218638
€41.91Caribbean Women Writers is a collection of scholarly articles on the fiction of selected Caribbean women writers from Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad. It includes not only close critical analysis of texts by... -
Stepping Westward: Writing the Highland Tour c. 1720-1830 by Nigel Leask 9780198850021
RRP: €127.93€109.67Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge,... -
The Triumph of Religion by Jacques Lacan
RRP: €17.84€16.16"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was... -
Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
RRP: €22.60€19.90What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function of literature is not so much to describe, or to re-present, as to make present. Here, he goes one step... -
Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action by Mark Cirino 9780299286545
RRP: €32.07€24.44Ernest Hemingway's groundbreaking prose style and examination of timeless themes made him one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. Yet in Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action, Mark Cirino observes, 'Literary criticism has... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens by Jon Mee 9780521676342
RRP: €22.60€19.25Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This... -
1 Henry IV: A Critical Guide by Stephen Longstaffe 9780826441966
€34.93This is an introduction to Shakespeare's "I Henry IV" - introducing its critical and performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. "I Henry IV" has always been one of Shakespeare's most... -
Modern Moral Philosophy by Jonny Blamey
RRP: €7.74€7.27Elizabeth Anscombe's 1958 essay "Modern Moral Philosophy" is a cutting intervention in modern philosophy that shows the full power of good evaluative and analytical critical thinking skills. Though only 16 pages long, Anscombe's paper set out to do...