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Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager by Euripides
RRP: £24.95£23.76Lost works by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BC survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two... -
The Triumph of Religion by Jacques Lacan
RRP: £14.99£13.58"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... -
Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 by Janet Afary
RRP: £95.00£76.66In 1906, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the tales of the Middle Eastern trickster Nasreddin to construct a progressive anti-colonial discourse with a strong emphasis on social, political and religious reform. Using folklore, visual... -
The Commercial Determinants of Health by Nason Maani 9780197578742
RRP: £102.50£99.03An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us-by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the... -
An Analysis of Rene Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy Andreas Vrahimis 9781912127320
RRP: £6.50£6.21Rene Descartes's 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy is a cornerstone of the history of western thought. One of the most important philosophical texts ever written, it is also a masterclass in the art of critical thinking - specifically when it comes to... -
Du Fu Transforms: Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse by Lucas Rambo Bender
RRP: £54.95£44.40Often considered China's greatest poet, Du Fu (712-770) came of age at the height of the Tang dynasty, in an era marked by confidence that the accumulated wisdom of the precedent cultural tradition would guarantee civilization's continued stability and... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens by Jon Mee 9780521676342
RRP: £18.99£16.18Charles 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
£29.35This 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... -
Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color by Nicholas Gaskill
RRP: £19.99£17.54The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880-1930Chromographia tells the story of how color became modern and how literature, by engaging with modern color, became modernist. From the vivid pictures in children's books to the... -
Conversations with Maya Angelou by Jeffrey M. Elliot 9780878053629
RRP: £24.95£23.71One of so many talents could only be expected to talk superbly, too. Here in over two dozen interviews is the voice of Maya Angelou (1928-2014) telling with strength, warmth, honesty, and dignified pride of her impact upon a difficult world and... -
Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination Professor James Porter 9781648250347
RRP: £40.00£38.25Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in... -
An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand
RRP: £9.99£8.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of AUPresses Book, Jacket, & Journal Show - Poetry and Literature 2020 (United States) and Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year | Alberta Book Publishing Awards, Book... -
Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France by Shaun Regan 9781611485936
RRP: £46.00£40.02Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of... -
Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West M.B. Parkes 9780859677424
RRP: £130.00£114.00From its publication in 1992 Pause and Effect has become a cornerstone of the study of punctuation across the world. Described as 'magisterial' by Lynne Truss in her best-selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, this book has stimulated interest and scholarly... -
Terminal Atrocity Zone: Ballard: J.G. Ballard 1966-73 by Stephen Barber 9780985762513
RRP: £9.95£7.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985762513Author Stephen BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Sun Vision PressPublisher Sun Vision PressWeight(grams) 196g -
A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey by Irene J. F. de Jong 9780521468442
RRP: £37.99£35.43Whereas traditional commentaries tend to be comprehensive and micro-textual, this narratological commentary, first published in 2001, focuses on one aspect of the Odyssey, its narrativity, and pays lavish attention to the meso- and macro-levels. Drawing... -
How To Read Sade by John Phillips 9781862077270
RRP: £6.99£5.02John Philips introduces the Marquis de Sade's highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. He shows how, though Sade's work continues to shock, it can also be seen... -
Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century Us Comic Strip by Alex Beringer 9780814258965
£40.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258965Author Alex BeringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy by Michael Neill 9780198820390
£41.09The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature... -
A History of Russian Literature by Andrew Kahn 9780192864031
RRP: £30.00£28.60Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev... -
Sterne: Tristram Shandy by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: £29.99£25.45Without a beginning and without an end, Tristram Shandy moves in many different directions, defying the conventional expectations of its readers. Wolfgang Iser shows how Sterne exploits the philosophy of his day and its cognitive deficiencies, using... -
An Introduction to Gaelic Fiction by Moray Watson
RRP: £20.99£17.47The first guide to Gaelic fiction - covering the full expanse of the canon Tracing the history of Gaelic fiction over the last century, Moray Watson looks at the work of well-known authors such as Iain Moireach, Tormod Caimbeul and Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn,... -
The Way of Tanka by Naomi Beth Wakan 9781941830604
RRP: £14.00£10.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941830604Author Naomi Beth WakanFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Shanti Arts LLCPublisher Shanti Arts LLCWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space by Professor Stephen Prickett
RRP: £30.00£22.84Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner selves - and how we have created and written about them - from the Old Testament to social media... -
The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald by Kirk Curnutt 9780521676007
RRP: £23.99£19.99Although F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the most recognizable literary figures of the twentieth century, his legendary life - including his tempestuous romance with his wife and muse Zelda - continues to overshadow his art. However glamorous his... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science by Steven Meyer
RRP: £25.99£22.39In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the 'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge between modern literature and modern science. In recent decades, scholars have worked diligently and often... -
Permanent Midnight: A Memoir by Jerry Stahl
RRP: £15.99£11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976082200Author Jerry StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint ProcessPublisher ProcessWeight(grams) 446g -
Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocriticism by Sidney I. Dobrin 9780814330289
RRP: £32.95£28.88Today's children are occupied with activities taking place in settings that are isolated from nature or are simulations of the earth's natural environment. As a result, unless they receive appropriate nature education, many children may never develop a... -
Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation by Mark Stein 9780814251331
£30.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251331Author Mark SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 426g -
How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology by Zong-qi Cai
RRP: £35.00£28.14This book offers a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and its literary and cultural significance. It features more than one hundred major texts from antiquity through the Qing dynasty that exemplify major genres, styles, and forms of... -
Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836 by Simon Bainbridge 9780198857891
RRP: £87.00£79.21This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than... -
One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun 9781911284024
RRP: £8.99£8.31An oblique, hard-edged novel tinged with offbeat fantasy, One Hundred Shadows is set in a slum electronics market in central Seoul - an area earmarked for demolition in a city better known for its shiny skyscrapers and slick pop videos. Here, the... -
England in 1819: Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism by James K. Chandler
RRP: £32.00£31.51The year 1819 was the "annus mirabilis" for many British Romantic writers, and the "annus terribilis" for demonstrators protesting the state of parliamentary representation. In 1819 Keats wrote what many consider his greatest poetry. This was the year of... -
Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic: Hall of Mirrors Nadia Bou Ali 9781474491747
RRP: £20.99£17.19Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic reorients the debates around Arabic and global modernity in relation to psychoanalysis, capitalism and universality. The study offers the first psychoanalytic reading of 19th-century works written during the nahda... -
Literature and the Taste of Knowledge by Michael Wood 9780521606530
RRP: £30.99£25.45What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This 2005 book seeks to answer and to prolong these questions through the close examination of individual works and the... -
Gladiator: Film and History Martin M. Winkler (George Mason University) 9781405110426
RRP: £37.95£33.10This is the first book to analyze Ridley Scott's film Gladiator from historical, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. The first systematic analysis of Ridley Scott's film, Gladiator. Examines the film's presentation of Roman history and culture... -
Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005 by Rene Girard
RRP: £21.99£19.49Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty of Rene Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, have left an indelible mark on the field of literary and cultural studies... -
Mann: Buddenbrooks by Hugh Ridley
RRP: £24.99£21.18This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will... -
A Study Guide for Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375397759
RRP: £9.95£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375397759Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)... -
The Sense of Brown by José Esteban Muñoz 9781478011033
RRP: £20.99£18.59The Sense of Brown is Jose Esteban Munoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Munoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho...