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Beckett and Stein by Georgina Nugent 9781108984355
RRP: €20.23€17.52What motivated Beckett, in 1937, to distance himself from the 'most recent work' of his mentor James Joyce, and instead praise the writings of Gertrude Stein as better reflecting his 'very desirable literature of the non-word'? This Element conducts the... -
When Art isn't Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation by Andrew Shortland 9789462703124
RRP: €20.23€16.79How an initially valueless object becomes worth hundreds of millions. And vice versa. The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. This book deals with one of the... -
Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz 9781643620282
RRP: €15.46€12.34Tender Points is a narrative fractured by trauma. Named after the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, the book-length lyric essay explores sexual violence, chronic pain, and patriarchy through lived experience and pop culture. First published in 2015,... -
Murder by the Book?: Feminism and the Crime Novel by Sally Rowena Munt 9780415109192
RRP: €49.97€43.73Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. Sally Munt asks why the form has proved so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics;... -
Isocrates II by Terry L. Papillon 9780292702462
RRP: €30.93€26.76This is the seventh volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline... -
Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate 9781642598742
RRP: €61.88€41.28"Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard." -Claudia Tate, from the introductionLong out-of-print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the... -
Variety: The Life of a Roman Concept by William Fitzgerald 9780226299495
RRP: €57.12€54.73The idea of variety may seem too diffuse, obvious, or nebulous to be worth scrutinizing, but modern usage masks the rich history of the term. This book examines the meaning, value, and practice of variety from the vantage point of Latin literature and... -
Peanuts Papers, The: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & The Gang, And The Meaning Of Life: A Library of America Special Publication by Andrew Blauner
RRP: €28.55€18.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536164Author Andrew BlaunerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Allegory by Professor Jeremy Tambling
RRP: €34.50€29.86Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century.In this useful guide, Jeremy Tambling: presents a... -
Humanistic Existentialism: The Literature of Possibility by Hazel Estella Barnes 9780803252295
€35.09Since it was first published in 1959, this book has been generally acclaimed as "the most thorough and reliable exposition of the works of Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir to have appeared in this country" (Chicago Sun-Times). Book InformationISBN... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists by Ton Hoenselaars
RRP: €30.93€26.17While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works... -
The Italian Resistance: An Anthology by Cooke 9780719049989
RRP: €17.84€16.23Anthology of key extracts, in Italian - both literary and non-literary.. Introduction and notes in English.. Contains material which would mesh well with various standard set texts, such as Pavese, Bittorini, Calvino, Vigano.. A unique selection - no... -
Shakespeare Thinking by Philip Davis 9780826486950
€30.29"Shakespeare Now!" is a series of short books of truly vital literary scholarship, each with its own distinctive form. "Shakespeare Now!" recaptures the excitement of Shakespeare; it doesn't assume we know him already, or that we know... -
The Gothic and Death by Carol Davison 9781526139474
RRP: €29.75€25.93The Gothic and death is the first published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries. It investigates how the multifarious strands of the Gothic and the concepts of death, dying, mourning and memorialisation ('the Death... -
Victorian Pain by Rachel Ablow 9780691202884
RRP: €33.32€25.94The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set of moral and philosophical dilemmas. If pain serves no... -
Philip II, the Father of Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues by Professor Edward M. Anson 9781350103948
€37.16Philip II was not only the father of Alexander the Great, but in many respects was also the father of his son's incredible career. It was the father who unified Macedonia into the first European nation and who created the army with which his son... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century by Margaret J. M. Ezell
RRP: €41.04€35.31The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered... -
Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction by Heather O'Donoghue 9780631236269
RRP: €41.59€36.69From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. An introduction to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature.Covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less... -
Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic by Xu Xu 9781611720556
RRP: €17.84€11.76Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today's readers an... -
Charles Dickens in Context by Sally Ledger 9781107698215
RRP: €36.88€34.13Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's... -
Textual Criticism and Qur'an Manuscripts by Keith E. Small 9780739177532
RRP: €53.55€46.99This unique work takes a method of textual analysis commonly used in studies of ancient Western and Eastern manuscripts and applies it to twenty-one early Qur'an manuscripts. Keith Small analyzes a defined portion of text from the Qur'an with two aims in... -
The People Are Missing: Minor Literature Today by Gregg Lambert
RRP: €23.79€20.87"The people are missing" is a constant refrain in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's writings after the 1975 publication of Kafka: Pour une litterature mineure. With the translation of this work into English (Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature) in 1986,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature by Candace Barrington 9781316632345
RRP: €28.55€24.24Despite an unprecedented level of interest in the interaction between law and literature over the past two decades, readers have had no accessible introduction to this rich engagement in medieval and early Tudor England. The Cambridge Companion to... -
The Book of Stupid Questions by Tom Weller 9780446389723
RRP: €17.84€15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446389723Author Tom WellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 118g -
Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head by Eliot Borenstein 9781501769368
RRP: €22.60€20.46Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and... -
G.W.M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics, and the Press by Anne Humpherys 9780367887964
RRP: €47.59€41.72G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian era that until now has been largely unacknowledged. A prolific novelist whose work had a massive circulation, and an influential journalist and editor, he was a man of contradictions in... -
The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini by Giacomo da Lentini 9781487522865
RRP: €27.36€22.84This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular. He was the leading exponent of the Sicilian School (c.1220-1270) as well as the inventor of the... -
Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah: Essays on the Epic Graphic Satire of Dave Sim and Gerhard by Eric Hoffman 9780786468898
RRP: €26.17€22.41In December 1977, struggling Canadian comic book artist Dave Sim self-published the first issue of Cerebus the Aardvark, a Conan the Barbarian satire featuring a foul-tempered, sword-wielding creature trapped in a human world. Over the next 26 years,... -
The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine 1840-1900 by Sally Shuttleworth 9780199682171
€51.32What is the difference between a lie and a fantasy, when the subject is a child? Moving between literary and scientific texts, Sally Shuttleworth explores a range of fascinating issues that emerge when the inner world of the child becomes, for the first... -
AstroLit: A Bibliophile's Guide to the Stars by McCormick Templeman 9780593579732
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593579732Author McCormick TemplemanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
National Identity in Russian Culture: An Introduction by Simon Franklin 9780521024297
RRP: €47.59€39.58What is Russia? Who are Russians? What is 'Russianness'? The question of national identity has long been a vexed one in Russia, and is particularly pertinent in the post-Soviet period. For a thousand years these questions have been central to the work of... -
Traces by Ernst Bloch
RRP: €23.79€20.87Written between 1910 and 1929, Traces is considered Ernst Bloch's most important work next to The Principle of Hope and The Spirit of Utopia. This book, which collects aphorisms, essays, stories, and anecdotes, enacts Bloch's interest in showing how... -
Literature and Disability by Alice Hall
RRP: €45.21€39.72Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide new approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 2: 1350-1547: Reform and Cultural Revolution by James Simpson 9780199265534
RRP: €61.88€52.03Heralding a new era in literary studies, the Oxford English Literary History breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon by focusing on the contexts in which the authors wrote and how their work was shaped by the times in which they lived... -
Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place by Lenka Filipova 9780367754655
RRP: €47.59€41.72The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental writing at the turn of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the notion of place as a way of interrogating the socio-political... -
Beginning Realism by Steven Earnshaw
RRP: €13.08€11.59Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as 'too slippery' to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students... -
The Reader in the Book: A Study of Spaces and Traces by Stephen Orgel 9780198737551
€35.35The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them,... -
The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation by Lenora Hanson
RRP: €28.55€24.80The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today. Lenora Hanson glimpses histories of subsistence (such as reproductive labor, vagrancy and criminality, and unwaged... -
A History of Ambiguity by Anthony Ossa-Richardson
RRP: €53.55€42.51Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism-far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive... -
Conrad's Western World by Norman Sherry 9780521298087
RRP: €36.88€34.13Conrad's Western World traces the sources of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and some of the short stories related to these novels. As in his highly acclaimed Conrad's Eastern World, Professor Sherry provides an interesting blend of...