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100 Objects of Doctor Who by Phillip Bates 9781913637484
£10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913637484Author Philip BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Candy Jar BooksPublisher Candy Jar Books -
The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century by Burton Watson
RRP: £35.00£27.74The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry presents translations of more than 420 poems by 96 poets drawn from the great ages of Chinese poetry. It begins with selections from the Book of Odes, the oldest anthology of Chinese poetry compiled around the seventh... -
The Road to East Slope: The Development of Su Shi's Poetic Voice by Michael A. Fuller
RRP: £74.00£65.35A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804715874Author Michael A. FullerFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press -
The Art of English Poesy: A Critical Edition by George Puttenham
RRP: £28.99£25.36George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable... -
Shiner by Maggie Nelson
RRP: £10.99£8.48In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles-syllabic verse, sonnets,... -
Zadie Smith's "White Teeth" by Claire Squires 9780826453266
£18.09This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains... -
War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail 9781857548693
RRP: £9.95£7.18"Yesterday I lost a country," Dunya Mikhail writes in "The War Works Hard", a subversive, sobering work by an exiled Iraqi poet, and her first collection to appear in English. Compassionate, engaged and direct, Mikhail's is a voice that transcends... -
J. F. Gonzalez's Shadows in the Attic by J F Gonzalez 9781088019566
RRP: £18.99£15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088019566Author J F GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 286g -
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America by Gloria Bird 9780393318289
RRP: £27.00£23.79This long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect poetry, fiction, prayer,... -
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism by Enda Duffy
RRP: £22.99£20.32Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handbook is a virtuoso exploration of Huxley's claim. Enda Duffy shows how the experience of speed has always been... -
The Good European: Arguments, Excursions and Disquisitions on the Theme of Europe by Iain Bamforth 9781857547658
RRP: £16.95£12.05Nietzsche, warning his countrymen in the Bismarck era against the nationalism that sought to promote all that was anti-rational in the German tradition, exhorted them to be "good Europeans", avatars of the enlightened economic man of the... -
Walter Benjamin: An Arcade of Reflections by Alan Wall 9780999136522
RRP: £12.95£11.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999136522Author Alan WallFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Odd VolumesPublisher Odd VolumesWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm -
On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word by Angela Leighton 9780199551934
RRP: £37.49£31.79What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how... -
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco 9780156011594
RRP: £24.95£18.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156011594Author Professor of Semiotics Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning,... -
A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555 by A. Saunders 9780521130035
RRP: £38.99£33.26This book, originally published in 1982, was the first detailed study of black slavery in Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when the Portuguese brought Europe into contact with black Africa and originated the Atlantic slave-trade... -
Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhetorica by Menander Rhetor
RRP: £24.95£23.76How to write a speech in ancient Greek.This volume contains three rhetorical treatises dating probably from the reign of Diocletian (AD 285-312) that provide instruction on how to compose epideictic (display) speeches for a wide variety of occasions both... -
Literature For Children by Peter Hunt 9780415068277
RRP: £37.99£33.38Children's literature has recently produced a body of criticism with a highly distinctive voice. The book consolidates understanding of this area by including some of the most important essays published in the field in the last five years, demonstrating... -
Roman Imperialism by Andrew Erskine
RRP: £29.99£28.00This book examines the course and nature of Roman expansion during the Republic and Early Empire, focusing on the impact of Roman rule on the subject, and the effect of empire on the imperial power. These are topics which have long generated considerable... -
'A Miracle of Learning': Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning: Essays in Honour of William O'Sullivan Daibhi O Croinin 9781859282939
RRP: £35.99£31.85This volume celebrates the work of William O'Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, made more accessible and elucidated the documents in his care. The manuscripts throw new light on the society of Ireland,... -
Time and Tide: The Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine by Catherine Clay 9781474418188
RRP: £95.00£85.77This book reconstructs the first two decades of the modern feminist magazine 'Time and Tide' and explores the periodical's significance for an interwar generation of British women writers and readers. Unique in establishing itself as the only female-run... -
The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook Mark C. Amodio (Vassar College, USA) 9780631226987
RRP: £25.95£22.96The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066. Makes Anglo-Saxon literature accessible to modern readers Helps readers to overcome the... -
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms by D. Miller
RRP: £21.99£21.31Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land-all are celebrated "wonders" of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our... -
The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives by Melanie Micir
RRP: £35.00£27.95How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history It's impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the diverse movers and shakers of the early twentieth century... -
Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem by Jennifer L. Fleissner
RRP: £28.00£27.79An examination of the nineteenth-century American novel that argues for a new genealogy of the concept of the will. What if the modern person were defined not by reason or sentiment, as Enlightenment thinkers hoped, but by will? Western modernity rests... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry by Michael Wachtel 9780521004930
RRP: £23.99£19.99The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry presents the major themes, forms, genres and styles of Russian poetry. Using examples from Russia's greatest poets, Michael Wachtel draws on three centuries of verse, from the beginnings of secular literature... -
Love Songs and Sonnets by Peter Washington
RRP: £16.99£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679454656Author Peter WashingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984 by Henri Michaux
RRP: £34.00£27.37Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux "genius," and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux's work "is without equal in... -
Dostoevsky as Suicidologist: Self-Destruction and the Creative Process by Amy D Ronner 9781793607836
RRP: £35.00£30.95In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim's etiology in Suicide as well as theories of other prominent suicidologists. This book not only fills a lacuna in... -
Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism by Miryam Sas
RRP: £24.99£22.01How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early twentieth century, focusing on Surrealist... -
Ancient Myths, Ancient Wisdom: Recovering Humanity's Forgotten Inheritance Through Celestial Mythology by David Warner Mathisen 9780996059060
RRP: £39.00£35.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996059060Author David Warner MathisenFormat PaperbackPage Count 866Imprint Beowulf BooksPublisher Beowulf BooksWeight(grams) 1134g -
Russomania: Russian culture and the creation of British modernism, 1881-1922 by Rebecca Beasley 9780198802129
RRP: £127.50£110.12Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain. British writers played a central role in the dissemination of Russian literature and culture during the early... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture by Joe Cleary
RRP: £30.99£26.96This Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the historical, social and stylistic complexities of modern Irish culture. Readers will be introduced to Irish culture in its widest sense and helped to find their way through the cultural and... -
The European Folktale: Form and Nature by Max Luthi
RRP: £13.99£12.59"Niles' excellent translation should bring Luthi's sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers." -Library JournalLuthi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important... -
The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography Terence Brown (Trinity College, Dublin) 9780631182986
RRP: £88.95£78.23W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure... -
Simone de Beauvoir by Ursula Tidd
RRP: £25.99£22.63Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking work has transformed the way we think about gender and identity. Without her 1949 text The Second Sex, gender theory as we know it today would be unthinkable. A leading figure in French existentialism, Beauvoir's... -
Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael by Anne K. Kaler 9780879727741
RRP: £17.95£12.35Detective, monk, father, herbalist, former Crusader and sailor, Celt, friend - author Ellis Peters bestows all these attributes on her twelfth-century Benedictine monk-detective Brother Cadfael. As a detective, Cadfael uses his analytic mind to solve... -
Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare by John S. Mebane
RRP: £19.99£17.81For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult. The three greatest playwrights of the period devoted major plays (The Tempest, Doctor Faustus, The... -
Measure for Measure by P. Edmondson
£24.11Measure for Measure generates much debate and is strikingly modern. This introductory guide offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performance, studies of influential performances, a survey of film... -
Conversations with Raymond Carver by Marshall Bruce Gentry 9780878054497
RRP: £29.95£27.41This collection of Raymond Carver's interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent of realistic fiction in the wake of postmodern... -
Fictions of Capital: The American Novel from James to Mailer by Richard Godden 9780521064033
RRP: £30.99£25.45Fictions of Capital situates manners and writing about manners in the context of American capitalism between 1880 and 1960, a period that runs from the onset of the sales culture to its war-prompted crisis point in the 1960s. The work of various economic...