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Reading Catullus by John Godwin 9781904675648
$35.20Of all the Roman poets Catullus is the most accessible for the modern reader. His poems range from the sublimely beautiful to the scatologically disgusting, from the world of heroic epic poetry to the dirt of the Roman streets. This accessible book,... -
Triumphal Forms: Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry by Alastair Fowler 9780521128964
RRP: $49.01$40.39A study of numerology in Elizabethan poetry, with some background studies which base the subject in classical learning, the works of Dante and Petrarch, and the esoteric traditions of the humanists. The central assumption of numerological criticism is... -
Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Duree by Zachary Lesser
RRP: $74.82$58.01Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a "collected works" of William Shakespeare, not in an imposingly large format but as a series of more humble quarto pamphlets. For... -
Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain by Lisa Stead
RRP: $30.95$25.17Examines women's constructions of selfhood through film and literature in interwar Britain'Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain' offers a rich new exploration of interwar women's fictions and their... -
The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation and Hidden Grief by Anne Anlin Cheng 9780195151626
RRP: $67.08$46.05In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is... -
Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" by Joanne Knowles 9780826453259
$23.34The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed to be a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and reading groups, as well as for literature students at school, college and university. The series aims to give readers... -
Boy in the Mirror by Tom Preston
RRP: $10.31$7.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853530Author Tom PrestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press -
The Beats: A Literary History by Steven Belletto
RRP: $38.69$31.68Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical history takes readers through key works by these... -
The Land's Wild Music: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest William, and James Galvin by Mark Tredinnick 9781595340184
RRP: $23.21$17.80At the heart of The Land's Wild Music is an examination of the relationship between writers and their. Interviewing four great American writers of place Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin author Mark Tredinnick... -
Irvine Welsh by Aaron Kelly 9780719066511
RRP: $25.79$22.72Irvine Welsh's fiction has defined an era, and this first full-length study provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis of all his work, from 'Trainspotting' and 'The Acid House' to 'Glue' and 'Porno'. A detailed chronological survey also... -
FfugLen: Y Ddelwedd O Gymru Yn Y Nofel Gymraeg O Ddechrau'r Chwedegau Hyd at 1990 by Enid Jones 9780708321652
RRP: $6.44$5.42FfugLen is the Welsh word for fiction but is also a play on the words 'ffug' (meaning fake or false) and 'len' (the prepositive of 'llenyddiaeth' or literature) implying that these images are often ambiguous. This title presents a study of the image of... -
The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017 by Hayden White 9781501773594
RRP: $30.95$26.88The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures. As in the... -
The Spanish Prisoner by Yannis Tzioumakis
RRP: $25.79$25.27Despite more than a passing nod to such crowdpleasing classics as Hitchcock's North by Northwest, playwright-turned-independent filmmaker David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is a particularly idiosyncratic film that betrays its origin outside the... -
Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making by Susan Stewart
RRP: $33.54$32.06Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in "The Poet's Freedom"... -
The Library: v. 2 by Apollodorus
RRP: $32.19$31.72Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary... -
Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science by N. Katherine Hayles
RRP: $20.63$18.37Hayles's point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplines physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theory signals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift. She... -
Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists by Charles Baudelaire 9780521282871
RRP: $52.88$45.23Before publishing Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857, Baudelaire was probably better known to his contemporaries as a critic than as a poet, and the articles translated here by P. E. Charvet illustrate the development of Baudelaire's critical ideas. The essays... -
Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Freeman
RRP: $27.08$23.70In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time... -
The Textual Condition by Jerome J. McGann
RRP: $58.05$45.92Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical... -
Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920 by Pamela Thurschwell 9780521801683
RRP: $116.10$104.53In this 2001 book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siecle. Thurschwell argues that technologies began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on: they... -
Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism by Hongwei Bao 9780367462840
RRP: $56.75$49.59This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China's post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these... -
Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe by Barry McCrea 9780300185157
$62.28In the first decades of the twentieth century, rural populations throughout Europe changed the language they used in everyday life, abandoning their traditional vernaculars-such as French patois, local Italian dialects, and the Irish language-in favor of... -
Uncle John's Fourth Bathroom Reader by Bathroom Reader's Hysterical Society 9780312064846
RRP: $25.79$16.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312064846Author Bathroom Reader's Hysterical SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins... -
Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others by Bobby Derie 9781614982586
RRP: $32.25$30.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982586Author Bobby DerieFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
We Are Animals by Tim Ewins 9781785632846
RRP: $11.60$9.12A cow looks out to sea, dreaming of a life that involves grass. Jan is also looking out to sea. He's in Goa, dreaming of the thief who stole his heart (and his passport) forty-six years ago. Back then, fate kept bringing them together, but lately it... -
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho by Haruo Shirane 9780804730990
RRP: $36.11$32.15Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and yet there has been remarkably little serious scholarship in English on his achievement. This book is intended to address that virtual void by establishing the ground... -
Greek Anthology: v. 3 by W. R. Paton
RRP: $32.19$30.65A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology (literally, "Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called... -
Dannie Abse: A Sourcebook by Dannie Abse 9781854115072
RRP: $19.34$13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854115072Author Cary ArchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 440g -
The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer by Nicholas Grene 9781472568106
$37.22Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright of his generation. The international success of DruidMurphy, the 2012-13 staging of three of his major plays by the... -
Ousmane Sembene: The Making of a Militant Artist by Samba Gadjigo
RRP: $20.63$19.38Samba Gadjigo presents a unique personal portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene. Though Sembene has persistently deflected attention away from his personality, his life, and his past, Gadjigo has had unprecedented... -
Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling by Erica Fretwell
RRP: $29.66$25.81In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how... -
The Svetlana Boym Reader by Svetlana Boym
$52.85Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflective immigrant; her most resonant book, The Future of Nostalgia, was deeply rooted in that experience. Even... -
Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion by Nathalie Cooke 9780313328060
$75.03This book offers readers a concise introduction to Atwood's published novels and the central themes motivating her writing. The volume starts with an overview of the author's biography and the relationship of her writing to relevant literary traditions... -
Conrad's Eastern World by Norman Sherry 9780521291200
RRP: $58.04$49.20A book for those interested in Conrad's life and work and/or literary detection convincingly performed. Professor Sherry establishes how well Conrad knew the East and how the original material he garnered there was supplemented from other sources; he... -
Poems in the Porch: The Radio Poems of John Betjeman by Kevin J. Gardner 9781441142184
$18.49The book represent a genuine and important discovery in the canon of Betjeman's poems, often considered closed with the publication of the "Complete Poems". Between 1953-57, John Betjeman read a series of poems on "The Faith in the West" program airing... -
An Analysis of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet Christien Garcia 9781912453122
RRP: $8.39$8.01In this book, Sedgwick examines texts from Europe and America such as Wilde, Nietzsche and Proust and considers the historical moment when sexual orientation came to be as important a signifier of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In doing... -
Decolonizing Ethics: The Critical Theory of Enrique Dussel by Amy Allen
RRP: $32.19$28.37Enrique Dussel is Latin America's foremost philosopher, renowned for his contributions to ethics, political philosophy, and liberation theology. Designed for classroom use, this collection of essays engages with Dussel's encyclopedic work, making his... -
Children's Literature by Pat Pinsent
RRP: $34.82$33.23This invaluable Guide surveys the key critical works and debates in the vibrant field of children's literature since its inception. Leading expert Pat Pinsent combines a chronological overview of developments in the genre with analysis of key theorists... -
Shakespeare's Princes of Wales: English Identity and the Welsh Connection by Marisa R. Cull 9780198716198
$145.22Shakespeare's Princes of Wales spotlights the surprising abundance of princes of Wales--English and Welsh alike--appearing onstage in the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In drawing our attention to the oft-overlooked and frequently misunderstood... -
Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction by Tom Shippey 9781781382615
$57.48An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue, first, that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as...