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Elena Ferrante's Key Words by Tiziana de Rogatis 9781787701922
RRP: £13.99£9.75"I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I read her with admiration and remain silent." -Elena Ferrante, in the magazine, San Lian Sheng HuoZhou... -
Re-Reading Harry Potter by Suman Gupta 9780230219588
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media. The 2nd edition also contains extensive new material... -
Words and The Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation by Stephen Prickett 9780521368384
RRP: £30.99£23.80First published in 1986, Stephen Prickett's Words and the 'Word' has had a major impact among scholars of literature and literary theory as well as among theologians and biblical critics. In this highly-acclaimed book Prickett pursues the question of the... -
Saturnin by Zdenek Jirotka
RRP: £22.50£18.95On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, "Saturnin" was a best-seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected - if temporary - reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation. In the years since, the novel has been hailed as a classic of... -
The Long-Lost Secret Diary of the World's Worst Engineers by Tim Collins 9781913971137
RRP: £7.99£5.23This series of hilarious fictional diaries put us inside the heads of hapless figures from history in frazzling situations. Malik and Leila are two Algerian children living in 19th-century Paris who become apprentices to the famous engineer, Gustave... -
Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £10.99£7.45A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry, LA VITA NUOVA is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own prose commentary. The poems themselves tell the... -
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley
RRP: £13.99£9.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898838Author Jenny MintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats by Peter M. Sacks
£30.83In an award winning book of literary scholarship, Sacks explores the functions as well as forms of convention and provides an interpretive study of the elegy as a genre. "The English Elegy" is an ambitious and humane book, an eloquent work on the poetry... -
Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics by Frederik Byrn Kohlert 9780813592299
RRP: £85.00£73.81Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Kohlert examines the genre's potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially... -
Lancelot-Grail: 4. Lancelot part III and IV - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: £30.00£27.08Lancelot is the central romance of the Vulgate Cycle, in which the chivalric elements in Arthur's court come to the fore. These chivalric elements contain the seeds of Arthur's destruction and the dissolution of the Round Table, as Lancelot's love for... -
The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing by Susheila Nasta 9781107195448
£118.39The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field's evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over... -
Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present by Margaret Greaves
RRP: £65.00£58.56Poetry and astronomy often travel together in the political sphere, from Milton's meeting with Galileo under house arrest to NASA's practice of launching poems into space. Anchored in the post-war period but drawing on a long history of poetry and... -
Writing in Society by Raymond Williams 9780860917724
RRP: £18.99£17.37Raymond 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... -
Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature by Santanu Das 9780521066877
RRP: £38.99£33.26The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War... -
Food in the Ancient World by John M. Wilkins 9780631235514
RRP: £33.95£29.98In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking. Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD. Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where... -
Cultural Locations of Disability by Sharon L. Snyder 9780226767321
RRP: £27.00£26.47In "Cultural Locations of Disability", Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies,... -
101 Best Sex Scenes Ever Written: An Erotic Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers by Barnaby Conrad 9781610350013
RRP: £15.99£9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610350013Author Barnaby ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd by Darren Freebury-Jones 9781526164742
RRP: £80.00£56.69Shakespeare's tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd adds to the critical and scholarly discussion that seeks to establish the early modern playwright Thomas Kyd's dramatic canon, and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of... -
Resisting the Power of Mea Culpa: A Story of Twentieth-Century Ireland by Gerard Rodgers 9781788746564
RRP: £34.70£30.70This is both a memoir of childhood trauma and a searing work of social criticism. Through his own experience of clerical abuse and his struggle with the system that allowed it to happen, the author documents an important period of social change in... -
Musaeus' Hero and Leander: Introduction, Greek Text, Translation and Commentary by Silvia Montiglio
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book offers a new English translation of Musaeus' poem Hero and Leander, with the original Greek on the facing page, a substantial introduction and a detailed commentary.The tragic romance of Hero and Leander has had and still has a great appeal,... -
Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture by Emily Kesling
RRP: £19.99£19.39Winner of the Best First Monograph from the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) 2021. An examination of the Old English medical collections, arguing that these texts are products of a learned intellectual culture. ... -
Romeo and Juliet: Critical Essays by John F. Andrews 9781138852716
RRP: £36.99£32.53Originally published in 1993. Presenting excerpts and articles on the themes and characters from the most famous story of young lovers, this collection brings together scholarship relating to the language, performance, and impact of the play. Ordered in... -
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France by Anne E. Linton
RRP: £34.99£30.09During the nineteenth century, words like 'intersex' and 'trans' had not yet been invented to describe individuals whose bodies, or senses of self, conflicted with binary sex. But that does not mean that such people did not exist. In nineteenth-century... -
The Norman Maclean Reader by Norman Maclean 9780226500270
RRP: £17.00£14.62In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim - as well as the devotion of readers... -
Coriolanus by Anita Pacheco 9780746311479
RRP: £18.69£13.33This book offers a stimulating new reading of Shakespeare's last tragedy. It situates the play within its own historical period and presents a lucid reappraisal of its representation of class conflict. One of the book's central arguments is that in... -
A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative by Jan Alber 9780814252543
£30.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252543Author Jan AlberFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 367g -
The Vagrant Mood by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: £12.99£9.49"The Vagrant Mood" is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; and, from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery... -
Avidly Reads Theory by Jordan Alexander Stein 9781479801008
RRP: £11.99£10.94"Theory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous." As an avowed "theory head," Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract, and often frustrating rigors of... -
Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks by Kathy Eden 9780226821269
RRP: £20.00£16.98Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical... -
The Robber by Robert Walser
RRP: £14.99£11.81The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to... -
Writing the Image After Roland Barthes by Jean-Michel Rabate
RRP: £23.99£20.84In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In Writing the Image After Roland Barthes,... -
Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account by Thomas Harrison
RRP: £31.00£26.73Offers a philosophical history of bridges-both literal bridges and their symbolic counterparts-and the acts of cultural connection they embody. "Always," wrote Philip Larkin, "it is by bridges that we live." Bridges represent our aspirations to connect,... -
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia: New edition by Norris J. Lacy 9780815323037
RRP: £79.99£71.20First published in 1996. Now updated with a new information-packed 40-page Supplement covering the years 1990-1995, this unique Encyclopedia highlights the World of King Arthur from its origins in Dark Age Britain to the present day, when Arthurian... -
Interpretations of Beowulf: A Critical Anthology by Robert D. Fulk
RRP: £23.99£20.84Interpretations of Beowulf brings together over six decades of literary scholarship. Illustrating a variety of interpretative schools, the essays not only deal with most of the major issues of Beowulf criticism, including structure, style, genre, and... -
Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-Examined by Elise Klein
RRP: £6.50£6.11Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-Examined is a seminal text setting out a theory to evaluate social arrangements and inequality. By asking the question, 'equality of what'?, Sen shows that (in)equality should be assessed as human freedom; for people to have... -
The Tide Tarrieth No Man: By George Wapull by Peter Happe 9780719089312
RRP: £50.00£35.83This volume is a photographic facsimile from the copy of the play by George Wapull in the Harry Ransom Centre.It was originally printed in 1576 by Hugh Jackson, and is one of only five extant copies. The introduction discusses the place of this play in... -
The Alchemical Harry Potter: Essays on Transfiguration in J.K. Rowling's Novels by Anne J. Mamary 9781476681344
RRP: £21.99£17.97When Harry Potter first boards the Hogwarts Express, he journeys to a world which Rowling says has alchemy as its "internal logic." The Philosopher's Stone, known for its power to transform base metals into gold and to give immortality to its maker, is... -
Further Letters of Mrs Gaskell by John Chapple 9780719067716
RRP: £19.99£17.82Contains number of previously unpublished letters which were not included in the hardback edition. Completes the project of publishing the correspondence of one of the greatest nineteeth-century novelists - J. A. V. Chapple edited not only the letters of... -
Inspired? Get Writing! by National Galleries Scotland 9781906270421
RRP: £9.95£6.78Thought-provoking, amusing, intriguing, disturbing: all these words will come to mind when browsing through this lavishly illustrated publication. The result of an ongoing collaboration between the National Galleries of Scotland, the English-Speaking... -
An Anthology of Modern French Poetry (1850-1950) by Peter Broome 9780521209298
RRP: £38.99£33.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.