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Antiphon and Andocides by Michael Gagarin
RRP: $20.63$19.08Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have... -
Romanticism and Millenarianism by Tim Fulford 9780312240110
RRP: $58.04$58.01Expectation of the millennium was widespread in English society at the end of the eighteenth century. The essays in this volume explore how exactly, this expectation shaped, and was shaped by, the literature, art, and politics of the period we now call... -
Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800 by Patrick Sims-Williams 9780521673426
RRP: $39.98$37.00Even the Venerable Bede knew little about the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms described in this book. In the sixth and seventh centuries the pagan peoples of the Hwicce and Magonsaetan occupied the frontier from Stratford-upon-Avon as far as the Welsh kingdoms... -
Modern African Drama by Biodun Jeyifo 9780393975291
RRP: $25.79$21.89"Backgrounds and Criticism" presents documents on modern African drama generally and on the assembled texts and authors specifically, including little-known materials. Featured are essays on Tawfik al-Hakim, Kateb Yacine, Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka,... -
Women'S Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s by Gill Rye 9780719062278
RRP: $25.79$22.72The 1990s witnessed an explosion in women's writing in France, with a particularly exciting new generation of writer's coming to the fore, such as Christine Angot, Marie Darrieussecq and Regine Detambel. Other authors such as Paule Constant, Sylvie... -
Silence by Kyle Gann 9780819573650
RRP: $34.77$22.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819573650Author Kyle GannFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Wesleyan University PressPublisher Wesleyan University Press -
Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' Notebook by Pamela Dalziel 9780199228492
RRP: $64.49$54.48Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' notebook, the last to be published from among the small group of notebooks not destroyed by Hardy himself or by his executors, has now been meticulously edited with full scholarly annotation. Through its inclusion of so... -
Constructing Postmodernism by Brian McHale 9780415060141
RRP: $56.75$49.59Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.About the AuthorBrian McHale is... -
Illness as Many Narratives: -Arts, Medicine and Culture- by Lecturer Stella Bolaki 9781474425582
$34.44Provides an understanding of the complex contribution illness narratives make to contemporary culture and the emergent field of Critical Medical Humanities.About the AuthorDr Stella Bolaki is Senior Lecturer in American Literature in the School of... -
Shakespeare's Freedom by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $27.09$26.20Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes-of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and verve for... -
Dreaming and Storytelling by Bert O. States
RRP: $32.24$28.39Are dreams merely odd things that happen to us at night, sometimes pleasant, sometimes terrifying, but not to be taken too seriously? Is there any reason to think about them at all, other than in terms of questions such as 'Why should Aunt Sarah turn... -
Ancient Epic Katherine Callen King (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 9781118255346
RRP: $33.48$29.15Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the... -
Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory by Marianne Hirsch
RRP: $38.70$35.33The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. Twenty-four... -
Scheherazade by Jay G Ying 9781912196302
RRP: $6.45$5.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of the 2019 New Poets Prize.Book InformationISBN 9781912196302Author Jay GaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
Friedrich Nietzsche by Lee Spinks
RRP: $25.79$22.82It is difficult to imagine a world without common sense, the distinction between truth and falsehood, the belief in some form of morality or an agreement that we are all human. But Friedrich Nietzsche did imagine such a world, and his work has become a... -
English Mystics of the Middle Ages by Barry Windeatt 9780521339582
RRP: $55.46$46.69This edition brings together for the first time key texts representing the writings of the medieval English mystics. The texts have been newly edited from early manuscripts, and are supplemented with textual and explanatory notes and a glossary. The book... -
Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis by Richard Buxton
RRP: $50.94$50.76In this illustrated study Richard Buxton analyses Greek literary narratives and visual representations of the metamorphosis of humans and gods, as evidenced from Homer to Nonnos. Such tales have become familiar in their Ovidian dress, as in the... -
De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon by William Farina 9780786423835
RRP: $28.37$24.87The 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... -
Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Joanne Shattock
RRP: $47.72$29.99Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars offer a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Essays range from studies of periodical formats in the... -
Virgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and Influence by Michael C. J. Putnam 9780807844991
$66.16In this collection of twelve of his essays, distinguished Virgil scholar Michael Putnam examines the Aeneid from several different interpretive angles. He identifies the themes that permeate the epic, provides detailed interpretations of its individual... -
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry by Neil Corcoran
RRP: $39.98$34.53The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the... -
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Biography Rosemary Ashton (University College, London) 9780631187462
RRP: $141.84$124.12Rosemary Ashton explores the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's complex personality, by turns poet, critic, thinker, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist and guilt-ridden opium addict.About the AuthorRosemary Ashton is... -
T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination by Jewel Spears Brooker 9781421426525
RRP: $45.15$39.98What principles connect-and what distinctions separate-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Waste Land, and Four Quartets?The thought-tormented characters in T. S. Eliot's early poetry are paralyzed by the gap between mind and body, thought and... -
Victorian Alchemy: Science, Magic and Ancient Egypt by Eleanor Dobson 9781787358492
RRP: $32.25$28.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787358492Author Eleanor DobsonFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 530g -
Kazuo Ishiguro by Wai-Chew Sim
RRP: $29.66$26.01Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times.In this guide to Ishiguro's varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew... -
Milton's Paradise Lost: Books IX and X by John Milton 9781107695672
RRP: $32.24$27.01Originally published in 1896, this book presents the text of the ninth and tenth books of Milton's Paradise Lost, in which humanity succumb to satanic temptation and are ejected from the Garden of Eden. The poem is accompanied by a biography of Milton, a... -
The Forms of Informal Empire: Britain, Latin America, and Nineteenth-Century Literature by Jessie Reeder
RRP: $39.35$35.04An ambitious comparative study of British and Latin American literature produced across a century of economic colonization.Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies AssociationSpanish colonization of Latin America came to an... -
The Greatest Spy Writers of the 20th Century: Buchan, Fleming and Le Carre by Phil Carradice 9781399071864
RRP: $25.80$18.43The spy novel has, over the past hundred years, become one of the most popular literary genres. The best exponents have become household names, as have their characters, heroes and villains alike. From Richard Hannay to James Bond and George Smiley, the... -
Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms by Miller Williams 9780807113301
$23.68Miller 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language by Lynne Magnusson
RRP: $96.75$77.41The power of Shakespeare's complex language - his linguistic playfulness, poetic diction and dramatic dialogue - inspires and challenges students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers across the globe. It has iconic status and enormous resonance, even as... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race by Ayanna Thompson
RRP: $107.06$96.50The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in... -
A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods 9780300080889
$44.03This important book is the first full-scale account of male gay literature across cultures, languages, and centuries. A work of reference as well as the definitive history of a tradition, it traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Greece... -
Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account by Thomas Harrison
RRP: $39.99$34.48Offers 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 Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies by Lynn Turner
RRP: $47.73$40.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474458528Author Lynn TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Transmission of "Beowulf": Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior by Leonard Neidorf
$61.40Beowulf, like The Iliad and The Odyssey, is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances. In The Transmission of Beowulf, Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to the study of the... -
The Circle of Nine: An Archetypal Journey to Awaken the Sacred Feminine within by Cherry Gilchrist 9781578636327
RRP: $18.05$15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578636327Author Cherry GilchristFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g -
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook by John F. Callahan 9780195145366
RRP: $49.01$42.27Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook offers students and scholars a rich variety of interpretations from which to fashion their own views of the novel and the man who created it. Both Ellison's comments, a number of which appear in print here for... -
Fantasy Lucie Armitt 9781138677029
RRP: $25.79$23.17Fantasy provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the study of this fascinating field. Covering literature, film, television, ballet, light opera and visual art and featuring a historical overview from Ovid to the Toy Story franchise, this book... -
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy by Michael Millgate 9780333461679
$58.53One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later... -
French Philosophy Today: New Figures of the Human in Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres and Latour by Christopher Watkin
RRP: $37.40$30.16Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno Latour: this comparative, critical analysis shows the promises and perils of new French philosophy's reformulation of the idea of the human.About the AuthorChristopher Watkin...