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Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making by Susan Stewart
RRP: $50.70$48.46Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in "The Poet's Freedom"... -
Summer: A Collection of Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children by Jennifer Aulie 9780946206476
$19.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946206476Author Jennifer AulieFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Wynstones PressPublisher Wynstones Press -
Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Liam Haydon
RRP: $12.68$11.91What is a self? Greenblatt argues that the 16th century saw the awakening of modern self-consciousness, the ability to fashion an identity out of the culture and politics of one's society. In a series of brilliant readings, Greenblatt shows how identity... -
Lancelot-Grail: 8. The Post Vulgate Cycle. The M - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy 9781843842385
RRP: $77.98$52.81The Post-Vulgate Cycle reworks the Vulgate Cycle from the end of The Story of Merlin. The sequel opens with Arthur's unwitting incest with his sister, and his establishment, with Merlin's help, of his title to the kingdom. The story of the events... -
Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance by Gordon McMullan 9781408185230
RRP: $46.78$46.41Women Making Shakespeare presents a series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources, including interviews with directors, actors, and other performance practitioners, to explore the place (or constitutive absence) of women in the... -
Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne by Bernhard Bischoff 9780521037112
RRP: $60.43$40.83Bernhard Bischoff (1906-1991) was one of the most renowned scholars of medieval palaeography of the twentieth century. His most outstanding contribution to learning was in the field of Carolingian studies, where his work is based on the catalogue of all... -
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1 by Author S T Joshi
$58.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980513Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy by Heidi Brayman Hackel 9780521104159
RRP: $77.98$64.86Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of a wide range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. Heidi Brayman Hackel argues for a history of reading centred on the traces left by merchants and... -
An Anthology of Greek Prose by D. A. Russell 9780198721222
RRP: $140.40$113.41BL With Greek texts and English commentary This anthology fills a gap which has been widely felt. It gives students - at sixth-form, undergraduate, or junior graduate level - the opportunity of sampling a very wide variety of Greek prose texts, chosen to... -
Little Goody Two-Shoes and Other Stories: Originally Published by John Newbery by Matthew Grenby
$38.82John Newbery is celebrated as the first successful publisher of children's books, and the founder of modern children's literature. Three classic works published by Newbery (the authors unknown) are now available for a new generation of readers. Edited by... -
Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Helena: Volume 11 by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: $163.80$163.76This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each... -
Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins by Susan Fraiman 9780231166355
RRP: $42.90$33.85Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic... -
Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures by Rachel A. Bowser
RRP: $42.88$39.35Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years of the twenty-first century, its influence and... -
Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald by Robert D. Richardson
RRP: $33.13$25.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620406533Author Robert D. RichardsonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 372g -
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll by Gillian Beer 9780226564692
RRP: $46.80$44.91In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. Few consider, however, that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a... -
To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology by Rene Girard 9780801836558
RRP: $44.85$44.58An individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, Rene Girard contends, lies at the source of all human disorder and order. In brilliant readings of Dante, Camus, Nietzsche, Dostoevski,... -
Beginning Shakespeare by Lisa Hopkins
RRP: $21.43$15.41'Beginning Shakespeare' introduces students to the study of Shakespeare, and grounds their understanding of his work in theoretical discourses. After an introductory survey of the dominant approaches of the past, seven chapters examine the major current... -
Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence by Michele Mendelssohn 9781526134288
RRP: $38.98$34.34This groundbreaking, cross-generic collection is the first to consider the entire breadth of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning writing. Focused through the concept of influence, the volume addresses critical issues surrounding the work of... -
HeLeNe Cixous: Dreamer, Realist, Analyst, Writing by Nicholas Royle
RRP: $48.75$34.94This book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date critical introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous (1937-), focusing on key motifs, such as dreams, the supernatural, literature, psychoanalysis, creative writing, realism, sexual differences,... -
Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron: Realism on Trial by Justin Steinberg 9781316512746
RRP: $58.50$50.60In Boccaccio's time, the Italian city-state began to take on a much more proactive role in prosecuting crime - one which superseded a largely communitarian, private approach. The emergence of the state-sponsored inquisitorial trial indeed haunts the... -
Works by Aeneas Tacticus
RRP: $48.65$45.61Three tactical treatises.Aeneas was perhaps a general, and certainly author of several didactic military works of which the sole survivor is that on defense against siege. From it we can deduce that he was a Peloponnesian of the fourth century BC who... -
Shakespeare's Politics by Allan David Bloom
RRP: $46.80$44.91Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. He aims to recover Shakespeare's ideas and beliefs, and to make his work once again a recognized... -
The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Andrew H. Miller 9780801477188
RRP: $44.83$35.22Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in... -
Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature by Professor Drew Daniel
RRP: $46.80$39.23Consulting an extensive archive of early modern literature, Joy of the Worm asserts that voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy. In this study, Drew Daniel identifies a surprisingly common aesthetic attitude that he calls "joy... -
Human Conflict in Shakespeare by S. C. Boorman 9780367684174
RRP: $62.38$55.24Conflict is at the heart of much of Shakespeare's drama. Frequently there is an overt setting of violence, as in Macbeth, but, more significantly there is often 'interior' conflict. Many of Shakespeare's most striking and important characters - Hamlet... -
The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce by Eric Bulson 9780521549653
RRP: $46.78$38.98James Joyce has a reputation for being one of modern literature's most difficult writers. This introduction gives students the necessary tools they will need to get the most out of reading him. It provides the essential biographical information and... -
Reason and Imagination in C.S. Lewis: A Study of "Till We Have Faces" by Peter J. Schakel 9780802819987
RRP: $38.98$21.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802819987Author Peter J. SchakelFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction by Catherine Gallagher
RRP: $60.45$58.87Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are... -
Turn-taking in Shakespeare by Oliver Morgan
RRP: $50.68$43.62Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It... -
Telling Tales: A Student Guide to the AQA Short Story Anthology by David Wheeler 9780993218361
$38.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993218361Author David WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Red Axe BooksPublisher Red Axe Books -
Eighteenth Century English Literature by Charlotte Sussman 9780745625157
RRP: $38.98$34.50This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of... -
Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life by Habiba Ibrahim
RRP: $46.78$40.64HONORABLE MENTION, HARRY SHAW AND KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES, GIVEN BY THE POP CULTURE ASSOCIATION A view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of... -
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: Revised and updated edition by Marc Leeds
RRP: $70.20$54.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385344234Author Marc LeedsFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Messing About in Boats by Michael Hofmann
RRP: $75.06$65.11Written by the eminent poet Michael Hofmann, this approachable and companionable book offers readings of four poems on the subject of boats. Based on Michael Hofmann's Clarendon lectures, this volume offers readings of four poems in German, French,... -
A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life by Arnold Weinstein 9780812972436
RRP: $33.13$23.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972436Author Arnold WeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 435g -
The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Hubble 9781350005419
$56.69How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing... -
Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves by Jack Zipes
RRP: $72.13$63.43This is an irresistible and unique anthology of fairy tales written by some of the most notable writers of the Victorian period, including Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbitt.Book InformationISBN... -
Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany by Sarah Neville
RRP: $146.25$132.09Between 1525 and 1640, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in the world of print: England saw the production of more than two dozen editions identified by their imprints or by contemporaries as 'herbals'. Sarah Neville explains how this genre grew from a... -
Student Guide to W.H. Auden by Stephen Wade 9781871551365
RRP: $23.38$23.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551365Author Stephen WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Antony and Cleopatra: Language and Writing by Prof. Virginia Mason Vaughan
RRP: $38.98$36.93Reading Antony and Cleopatra is particularly challenging because of Shakespeare's masterful embodiment of Rome and Egypt's contrasting worlds in language, structure, and characterization. Instead of seeing the interaction of Roman and Egyptian...