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Mahmoud Darwish: Exile's Poet by Hala Khamos Nassar 9781566566643
RRP: £23.99£16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566643Author Hala Kh. NassarFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Hidden In Plain Sight: The True History Revealed in Shake-speares Sonnets by Peter Rush 9780988395916
RRP: £13.95£11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988395916Author Peter RushFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Real Deal PublicationsPublisher Real Deal PublicationsWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)... -
Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Marcus 9780691254333
RRP: £25.00£18.93An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed... -
The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Bronte Wrote Her Masterpiece by John Pfordresher 9780393248876
RRP: £20.99£17.75In this perceptive book, John Pfordresher shares the enthralling story of how Charlotte Bronte wrote her masterpiece and why she tried so vehemently to disown it. What few people knew then-and even fewer know today-was that as she tended her invalid... -
Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume 2, 1851-1891 by Hershel Parker 9780801881862
RRP: £38.00£34.35The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville-a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize-closed on a mid-November day in 1851. In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, Melville had just presented an... -
Essays On World Literature: Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Dante by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £14.99£10.14The Man Booker International-winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania's most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world literature - Aeschylus, Dante, and Shakespeare - through the... -
Erotica, Love and Humor in Arabia: Spicy Stories from The Book of Songs by al-Isfahani by Abu Al-Faraj Al-Isfahani 9781476663654
RRP: £14.99£12.55The Book of Songs of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (AD 897-971) is the most extensive collection of anecdotes from pre-Islam Mecca, Medina, Damascus and Baghdad. Entertaining and informative, these gems have remained largely inaccessible to the Western... -
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics by Tobias Menely
RRP: £24.00£23.03Winner of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize and the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies Warren-Brooks Award. In this book, Tobias Menely develops a materialist ecocriticism, tracking the imprint of... -
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll by Gillian Beer
RRP: £80.00£76.61In 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. What is often overlooked, however, is that Carroll conceived his Alice books during... -
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: £39.99£27.08The 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... -
Shakespeare, Blackface and Race: Different Perspectives by Coen Heijes
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element addresses the topical debate on blackface, race and Othello. With Shakespeare performance studies being rather Anglo-centric, the author explores how this debate has taken a radically different course in the Netherlands, a country... -
Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance by Gordon McMullan 9781408185230
RRP: £23.99£23.80Women 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: £30.99£20.94Bernhard 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
RRP: £30.00£28.83Apologies 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: £39.99£33.26Reading 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: £72.00£58.16BL 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... -
Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Helena: Volume 11 by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £84.00£83.98This 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: £22.00£17.36Domesticity 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... -
Arthurian Romance: A Short Introduction by Derek Pearsall 9780631233206
RRP: £29.95£27.66This witty and accessible book traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times, explaining its enduring appeal. Traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times. Covers art and films as well as the great... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel by Robert L. Caserio
RRP: £24.99£21.18The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published... -
Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
RRP: £38.00£30.41After centuries of oppressive Ottoman rule, the Arab world began to find new vitality and freedom in the twentieth century. The accompanying resurgence of creative expression is splendidly reflected in this definitive anthology of contemporary Arabic... -
What Poets Used to Know: Poetics - Mythopoesis - Metaphysics by Charles Upton 9781597311717
RRP: £16.00£15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597311717Author Charles UptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Andrew H. Miller 9780801477188
RRP: £22.99£18.61Literary 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... -
Tale of Genji: A Reader's Guide by William J. Puette
RRP: £8.99£8.76"Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki's wondrous world will certainly find Puette's guide most helpful." -The Japan TimesThis is the most complete reader's guide available on Japan's highly revered novel, the eleventh-century... -
Reason and Imagination in C.S. Lewis: A Study of "Till We Have Faces" by Peter J. Schakel 9780802819987
RRP: £19.99£10.96Apologies 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... -
Turn-taking in Shakespeare by Oliver Morgan
RRP: £25.99£22.37Oxford 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... -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 9780312256869
£20.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312256869Author Emily BronteFormat PaperbackImprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning -
The Death of Literature by Alvin B. Kernan 9780300052381
£20.24Literature has passed through a crisis of confidence in recent decades-a radical questioning of its traditional values and its importance to humanity. In this witty and eloquent book, a distinguished professor of humanities looks at some of the agents... -
Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
RRP: £18.99£16.98What 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... -
Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life by Habiba Ibrahim
RRP: £23.99£20.84HONORABLE 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... -
A New Companion to Digital Humanities Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin, Ireland) 9781118680643
RRP: £35.95£32.31This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship. A fully revised edition of... -
A Companion to Comparative Literature Ali Behdad (University of California, Los Angeles, CA) 9781118917350
RRP: £39.95£35.71A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature. Features over thirty original... -
The Road to Middle-Earth: [How J.R.R. Tolken Created a New Mythology] by T. A. Shippey 9780618257607
RRP: £24.99£17.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618257607Author T. A. ShippeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *... -
The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte by Emily Bronte 9780231103473
RRP: £28.00£21.80In 1846 a small book entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bellappeared on the British Literary scene. The three psuedonymous poets, the Bronte sisters went on to unprecedented success with such novels as Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and Jane Eyre,... -
Messing About in Boats by Michael Hofmann
RRP: £38.49£33.39Written 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,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce by Eric Bulson 9780521549653
RRP: £23.99£19.99James 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... -
Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey & the Iliad by Eva Brann 9780967967578
RRP: £23.99£15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967967578Author Eva BrannFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 443g -
Selected Essays of Wilson Harris by Wilson Harris
RRP: £43.99£38.44Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. ... -
Cathay: A Critical Edition by Ezra Pound 9780823288687
RRP: £25.99£20.61Finalist, Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915) is a masterpiece both of modernism and of world literature. The muscular precision of images that mark Pound's translations helped establish a modern style for American literature,... -
One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry: Theory and Practice by Prof. Willard Bohn
RRP: £19.99£17.61Given that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the vitality and continued popularity of the movement today. ...