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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment by Isobel Grundy 9780198187653
€70.57This book is the first to look at Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's achievement as a vital figure in the women's literary tradition. Robert Halsband's book on her life, the sixth this century and published in 1956, was the first to apply scholarly techniques... -
Aminadab by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: €20.22€17.93The world of Aminadab, Maurice Blanchot's second novel, is dark, bizarre, and fantastic. Reminiscent of Kafka's enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction of power, authority, and hierarchy. The novel opens... -
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by John Sitter 9780521658850
RRP: €32.12€27.13The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. These specially-commissioned essays avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to... -
Courtier, Scholar, and Man of the Sword: Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his World by Christine Jackson 9780192847225
RRP: €121.98€110.34Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also numbered among the leading intellectuals of his generation. He travelled widely in Britain and Europe,... -
How to Read an Oral Poem by John Miles Foley
RRP: €26.17€22.84Though they appear diverse, Homer's Odyssey and slam poetry from contemporary urban America both draw from the well of oral tradition. This unique, practical, and user-friendly guide explores the cultural contexts of verbal art to provide... -
The Penguin Book of Mermaids by Cristina Bacchilega
RRP: €21.41€14.95A unique anthology of mermaid tales from around the world, many of which have never appeared in English beforeAmong the oldest and most popular mythical beings, mermaids and other merfolk have captured the imagination since long before Ariel sold her... -
Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology by Erin James 9780814255650
€40.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255650Author Erin JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Celine: Journey to the End of the Night by John Sturrock 9780521378543
RRP: €27.36€23.93This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will... -
Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy by Bernice M. Murphy 9780786423125
RRP: €26.17€21.38Shirley Jackson was one of America's most prominent female writers of the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1965 she published six novels, one best-selling story collection, two popular volumes of her family chronicles and many stories, which ranged from fairly... -
Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination by Brent Hayes Edwards 9780674055438
RRP: €42.78€34.46In 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted "Epistrophy," one of the best-known compositions of the bebop era. The song's title refers to a literary device-the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses-that is echoed in the... -
Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel by Sean Kicummah Teuton
RRP: €27.36€23.81In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic... -
St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry by Gerald Brenan 9780521099530
RRP: €46.40€39.58The paperback edition of a very successful and in some ways remarkable book, first published in 1973. Gerald Brenan is well known for his 'expository' works on Spanish history and literature, and now in his eighties he has returned to an early interest... -
Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey 9780813923727
€39.01Perhaps there is no other region in the world that has been more radically altered in terms of human and botanic migration, transplantation, and settlement than the Caribbean. Theorists such as Edouard Glissant argue that the dialectic between Caribbean... -
Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature by Dana M. Oswald
RRP: €95.20€91.17A gendered reading of monster and the monstrous body in medieval literature. Monsters abound in Old and Middle English literature, from Grendel and his mother in Beowulf to those found in medieval romances such as Sir Gowther. Through a close... -
Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context by Jacques Jouanna 9780691172071
RRP: €65.45€51.06Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles' plays,... -
Women Times Three: Writers, Detectives, Readers by Kathleen Gregory Klein 9780879726829
RRP: €18.98€12.99This volume explores the range of relationships among women writers, women detectives and women-centered mystery fiction, and women readers. Focusing on writers as diverse as Sara Paretsky, Joan Hess, Sarah Caudwell, P.D. James, Katherine V. Forrest,... -
Concepts of Criticism by Rene Wellek 9780300094633
€40.4614 essays cover literary theory, criticism, and history, concepts of form and structure, the Baroque, Romanticism, realism, positivism, comparative literature, and American and twentieth-century criticism.Book InformationISBN 9780300094633Author Rene... -
Moby-Dick as Philosophy: Plato - Melville - Nietzsche by Professor Mark Anderson 9780996772501
RRP: €16.65€11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996772501Author Professor Mark AndersonFormat PaperbackImprint S.PH. PressPublisher S.PH. PressWeight(grams) 562g -
The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace by Professor Brian Cummings 9780199226337
RRP: €71.40€59.87Brian Cummings examines the place of literature in the Reformation, considering both how arguments about biblical meaning and literary interpretation influenced the new theology, and how developments in theology in turn influenced literary practices... -
One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake by Tua Forsstrom
RRP: €11.84€8.07Tua Forsstrom is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the... -
Eco-Travel: Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene by Michael Cronin
RRP: €20.23€17.52Human encounters with the natural world are inseparable from the history of travel. Nature, as fearsome obstacle, a wonder to behold or a source of therapeutic refuge, is bound up with the story of human mobility. Stories of this mobility give readers a... -
Birds in Medieval English Poetry: Metaphors, Realities, Transformations: 2 by Michael J. Warren 9781843845911
RRP: €29.74€28.46First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower. Birds featured in many aspects of medieval people's lives, not least in their poetry. But despite their... -
De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon by William Farina 9780786423835
RRP: €26.17€22.94The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but the identity of the Bard is not definitely decided. During the 20th century, Edward de Vere, the most flamboyant of the courtier poets, a man of the theater and literary patron, became the... -
Ausonius Opera by Prof R. P. H. Green 9780198150398
€53.26Ausonius has become a more accessible writer since the appearance of Professor Green's acclaimed commentary on him in 1991, which among other things stimulated discussion of his text and the textual tradition. This newly revised text takes advantage of... -
Scandinavian Crime Fiction by Paula Arvas 9780708323304
RRP: €23.79€18.12Crime writers from the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) have become some of the most widely read authors of the 1990s and 2000s. Yet books by such authors as Henning Mankell, Liza Marklund, Karin Fossum, and Anne Holt have... -
Shakespearean Territories by Stuart Elden
RRP: €28.56€27.41Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much... -
Geoffrey Chaucer in Context by Ian Johnson 9781009010603
RRP: €29.74€27.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
About a Girl: A Reader's Guide to Eimear McBride's a Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by David Collard 9781909585065
RRP: €14.28€11.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585065Author David CollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions -
Modernism, Technology, and the Body: A Cultural Study by Tim Armstrong 9780521599979
RRP: €46.40€39.58This book is a study of the relations between the body and its technologies in modernism. Tim Armstrong traces the links between modernist literary texts and medical, psychological and social theory across a range of writers, including Yeats, Henry... -
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 9780393971675
€28.35Thucydides' military and diplomatic acumen, his understanding of human psychology, and his narrative skill have shaped the writing of history for over two thousand years. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides supplementary selections from Xenophon,... -
A Refuge in Thunder: Candomble and Alternative Spaces of Blackness by Rachel Elizabeth Harding
RRP: €22.60€19.90"[An important] detailing of the development and evolution of a major institution of the African Diaspora [and] of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian identity." -Sheila S. WalkerThe Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognized as an extraordinary... -
Victorian Masculinities: Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art by Herbert Sussman 9780521054669
RRP: €36.88€30.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
No Authority: Writings from the Laureate for Irish Fiction by Anne Enright 9781910820513
RRP: €20.23€16.79In three urgent pieces of non-fiction Anne Enright explores speech and silence in the lives of Irish women: the long silence surrounding the Mother and Baby home in Tuam which was broken by the voice of Catherine Corless, the silence of Irish literary... -
English Literature: A Student Guide by Martin Stephen 9780582414518
RRP: €59.49€57.41Now appearing in its third edition, Martin Stephen's classic text and course companion to English literature has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of the changes which have occurred in the subject since publication of the second edition... -
Comics and Archaeology by Leen Van Broeck
€44.07This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions... -
Ugaritic Narrative Poetry by Simon B Parker 9780788503375
RRP: €21.42€18.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788503375Author Simon B ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)... -
Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love: Sexual Revolution in British Writing of the 1930s by Glyn Salton-Cox 9781474454858
RRP: €28.55€26.00Queer Communism and the Ministry of Loveseeks to transform current narratives of midcentury literary, cultural, and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective.Book InformationISBN 9781474454858Author Glyn Salton-CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
A Companion to Homer's Odyssey by James Morrison 9780313318542
€65.76Odysseus lost his way, but students shouldn't have to. This delightful companion, written in a lively narrative style and full of fresh insights and interpretations, offers teachers a wealth of ideas for making Homer's timeless epic come alive for... -
Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms by Miller Williams 9780807113301
€24.16Miller Williams' Patterns of Poetry is an encyclopedia of the forms used by poets throughout the history of English, from blank verse to hymnal measure, from englyn penfyr to the double dactyl, from the clerihew to the sonnet. Each form is introduced... -
Medieval Bridges of Southern England: 100 Bridges, 1000 Years by Marshall G. Hall 9781914427138
RRP: €59.44€54.19Throughout history rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have long been a key part of local livelihoods, history and culture, as well as still playing a present-day role in providing services and leisure to people who live around them. It is no...