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Skeleton Plays Violin: Book Three of Our Trakl by Georg Trakl
RRP: $24.50$21.19The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schuler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein famously wrote that while he... -
Critical Approaches to Creative Writing Graeme Harper 9781138931558
RRP: $25.79$23.17What is creative writing? In Critical Approaches to Creative Writing, Graeme Harper draws on both creative and critical knowledge to look at what creative writing is, and how it can be better understood. Harper explores how to critically consider... -
Writing in Society by Raymond Williams 9780860917724
RRP: $24.50$23.12Raymond Williams's work was always concerned with the relation between culture and society. This book focuses on specific texts and authors, exploring the historical and cultural sources of their particular forms of writing. In it, Williams examines... -
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War by Monica Popescu
RRP: $28.37$24.76In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from... -
The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee by Jarad Zimbler
RRP: $30.95$26.70Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is amongst the most acclaimed and widely studied of contemporary authors. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those... -
God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945 by Claude Rawson 9780198184256
$132.17We 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 Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems by Al Filreis 9780812253238
RRP: $30.95$27.30Since its inception in 2012, the hugely successful online introduction to modern poetry known as ModPo has engaged some 415,000 readers, listeners, teachers, and poets with its focus on a modern and contemporary American tradition that runs from Walt... -
The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman by Ezra Greenspan
RRP: $29.66$25.23The 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... -
The Becoming by Nicole Luongo
RRP: $19.34$17.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771338134Author Nicole LuongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc... -
Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery by Brian Boyd
RRP: $45.15$36.06Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of... -
Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 2: Fourth-Century and Hellenistic Poets: Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia by Martin J. Cropp 9781802078237
RRP: $51.59$46.52This 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... -
Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory by Lee Edelman
RRP: $51.59$45.23Brings provocative, rigorous and controversial readings of literary and cultural texts to gay critical analysis. Lee Edelman rearticulates the politics of sexuality, addressing some of the most hotly debated issues of our time.Book InformationISBN... -
James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising as Modern Event by Professor Luke Gibbons
RRP: $109.65$104.88A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization. When revolutionaries seized Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising, they looked back to unrequited pasts to point the way toward radical futures-transforming the... -
Suicide and the Gothic by William Hughes 9781526171849
RRP: $25.80$23.01Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most enduring and popular forms of fiction. Comprising eleven original essays and an authoritative introduction, this... -
An Analysis of G.E.M. Anscombe's Modern Moral Philosophy Jonny Blamey 9781912127238
RRP: $8.39$8.01Elizabeth 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... -
Film Violence - History, Ideology, Genre by Jim Kendrick 9781906660260
RRP: $23.21$19.57Apologies 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 *... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon by Peter McCullough 9780199237531
RRP: $161.25$154.16Scholarly 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... -
A Monk in the Bee Hive by Skye Ann Louise Taylor 9780981575773
RRP: $20.64$13.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981575773Author Skye Ann Louise TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Logosophia, LLCPublisher Logosophia, LLCWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 224mm... -
Truth and Wonder: A Literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: $37.40$32.37Truth and Wonder is an accessible introduction to Plato and Aristotle, showing their crucial influence for literary and cultural studies, modern languages and related disciplines. It focusses on both what Plato and Aristotle say about literature and how... -
Analyzing Prose by Richard A. Lanham 9780826461902
$55.50What 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... -
To Ireland, I by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $19.34$12.98The 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 Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland by Edna Longley 9781852242176
RRP: $19.35$15.05Edna Longley’s second collection of essays for Bloodaxe investigates the links between Irish literature (especially contemporary poetry), Irish culture and Irish politics. The Living Stream takes its title from Yeats’s poem ‘Easter 1916’: ‘Hearts with... -
Artaud's Metamorphosis: From Hieroglyphs to Bodies Without Organs by Jay Murphy 9780957147096
RRP: $24.50$21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957147096Author Jay MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Pavement BooksPublisher Pavement BooksWeight(grams) 440g -
Selected Orations: v. 2 by Libanius
RRP: $32.19$30.65Pagans' advocate.Libanius (AD 314-393) was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism. His story, as presented in his Autobiography and the Life by Eunapius, is supplemented by information from a correspondence of over 1500 items... -
Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars Alison Light 9780415861892
RRP: $64.49$56.12Most 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... -
Fredric Jameson by Adam Roberts
RRP: $33.53$29.19An invaluable introduction to the life and work of one of today's most important cultural critics. Studied on most undergraduate literary and cultural studies courses, Fredric Jameson's writing targets subjects from architecture to science fiction,... -
Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times by Andrew D Kaufman 9781451644715
RRP: $20.64$13.38Apologies 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 *... -
Book of the Magical Mythical Unicorn, The: A Unique Anthology of Esoteric Knowledge, Myths and Legends Vakasha Brenman 9781789042535
RRP: $14.18$12.22The Book of the Magical Mythical Unicorn is an anthology of esoteric knowledge, myths, and legends about the most magical of beasts: the mythical unicorn. Utilizing a global lens, the authors delve into the critical importance of the timeless unicorn... -
Works: v. 2 by Demosthenes
RRP: $32.19$30.65The 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 New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed by Laurence Davis 9780739110867
RRP: $58.05$51.35The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural,... -
Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family by Michael G. Brennan
$49.60Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family is a wide-ranging survey of the prolific literary career of one of the most popular English writers of the 20th century. Michael G. Brennan here identifies three major themes as central to any understanding of... -
In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 21 by Patora Fuyuhara
RRP: $14.18$11.11A Nice Day for a White Wedding The time has come: Touya's all set to marry his nine blushing brides! The invites are addressed and stamped, the dinner menu has been set, and the entire nation of Brunhild trembles with anticipation. Can he make it... -
Nick Dear Plays 1: Art of Success; In the Ruins; Zenobia; Turn of the Screw by Nick Dear
RRP: $24.50$16.55This 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... -
Dead Reckonings No. 29 (Spring 2021) by Alex Houstoun 9781614983439
RRP: $9.68$9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983439Author Alex HoustounFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism Scott M. Reznick 9780198891956
RRP: $90.30$82.22Political 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... -
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory by Professor Ann Rosalind Jones
RRP: $34.82$29.61During the late sixteenth century 'fashion' first took on the sense of restless change in contrast to the older sense of fashioning or making. As fashionings, clothes were perceived as material forms of personal and social identity which made the man or... -
The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture by Roxann Wheeler 9780812217223
$41.36In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons-but... -
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare 9780143131731
RRP: $12.90$8.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131731Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm)... -
The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack
RRP: $14.18$12.40How have women read differently from men through the ages? In all manner of ways, this book asserts. This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel by Efrain Kristal 9780521532198
RRP: $39.98$34.53The 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...