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The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study and Complete Translation by Scott Cook
RRP: €76.16€67.64The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian, Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of Chinese philosophy and literature. This study renders the complex corpus of the Guodian texts into a more easily manageable... -
Jungian Literary Criticism: The Essential Guide by Susan Rowland
RRP: €47.59€41.72In Jungian Literary Criticism: the essential guide, Susan Rowland demonstrates how ideas such as archetypes, the anima and animus, the unconscious and synchronicity can be applied to the analysis of literature. Jung's emphasis on creativity was central... -
The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 by Christine Ferguson 9780367885069
RRP: €47.59€41.72Between 1875 and 1947, a period bookended, respectively, by the founding of the Theosophical Society and the death of notorious occultist celebrity Aleister Crowley, Britain experienced an unparalleled efflorescence of engagement with unusual occult... -
Samuel Beckett by David Pattie 9780415202541
RRP: €23.79€21.05Samuel Beckett's work forever changed the concepts of literature and theatre. His work remains a core part of introductory courses on literary history, drama, theatre or performance and also features in more specialist modules such as Modernism or The... -
War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma by Christopher Herbert
RRP: €41.65€33.01On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain,... -
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville by Michael Rogin
RRP: €35.70€28.19In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville's life and work, Michael Rogin shows that Melville's novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family.Book InformationISBN... -
Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Stories in Classical Literature by William Hansen
RRP: €38.08€34.05From Cinderella to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, and folktales are part of the oral tradition in countries around the world. In addition to their pervasiveness, these stories show an... -
Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats by Robert Inchausti 9781611804171
RRP: €19.03€13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804171Author Robert InchaustiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Vita nuova: Italian Text with Facing English Translation by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €27.36€23.81This bilingual edition of the Vita Nuova is the first facing-page translation of this text to be available in over 50 years. Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta have translated Dante's lyrics into line-by-line free verse that seeks to reproduce Dante's... -
"The Crazy Iris" and Other Stories by Kenzaburo Oe 9780802151841
RRP: €15.46€12.00Edited by one of Japan s leading and internationally acclaimed writers, this collection of short stories was compiled to mark the fortieth anniversary of the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here some of Japan s best and most... -
The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great by Bertram Colgrave 9780521313841
RRP: €47.59€39.58In his role of apostle of the English and promoter of Augustine's mission, Gregory the Great became the subject of what is one of the earliest pieces of literature surviving from the Anglo-Saxon period: a Life written by an unknown author at Whitby... -
Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader by Timothy Corrigan
RRP: €57.11€50.23The Routledge new edition of this classic book functions as an accessible introduction to the historical and theoretical exchanges between film and literature and also includes the key critical readings necessary for an understanding of this increasingly... -
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park by Naomi Mandel
RRP: €38.07€33.77This collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis examines the novels of his mature period: "American Psycho" (1991), "Glamorama" (1999), and "Lunar Park" (2005). Taking as its starting-point "American Psycho"'s seismic impact... -
Yoruba Trickster Tales by Oyekan Owomoyela
RRP: €16.65€15.83Yoruba Trickster Tales come out of the tradition of evening storytelling, a popular form of entertainment in traditional African societies. A favorite genre among these folktales is the trickster tale, variations of which are found in many cultures... -
Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews by John G. Peters 9781009100199
€131.57Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews (five volumes) is an indispensable resource for Conrad specialists and students of literary Modernism generally, aiming to provide as complete a view as possible of the contemporary reception of Joseph Conrad's works... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English by C. L. Innes
RRP: €32.12€27.13The past century has witnessed the extraordinary flowering of fiction, poetry and drama from countries previously colonised by Britain, an output which has changed the map of English literature. This introduction, from a leading figure in the field,... -
Two Studies of Friedrich Hoelderlin by Werner Hamacher 9781503611115
RRP: €33.31€28.73Two Studies of Friedrich Hoelderlin shows how the poet enacts a radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique and still groundbreaking concept of revolution, one that begins with a revolutionary understanding of language. The product of an... -
Shakespeare's First Reader: The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley by Jason Scott-Warren 9780812251456
RRP: €46.41€40.60Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence;... -
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities by Dennis Walder
RRP: €45.21€40.20The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary, Portrait... -
Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Melissa Anelli 9781416554950
RRP: €20.22€16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416554950Author Melissa AnelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Rediscovering Margiad Evans: Marginality, Gender and Illness by Kirsti Bohata 9780708325605
RRP: €10.70€8.18Margiad wrote about the elderly, about love between women, about elusive, enigmatic characters. She is renowned for her ability to depict place, yet she also makes place reflective of the emotional and spiritual lives of her characters and her own... -
Stichus. Three-Dollar Day. Truculentus. The Tale of a Traveling-Bag. Fragments by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: €29.69€27.83Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and... -
#MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture by Dr. Mary K. Holland
RRP: €30.93€26.91Literature has always recorded a history of patriarchy, sexual violence, and resistance. Academics have been using literature to expose and critique this violence and domination for half a century. But the continued potency of #MeToo after its 2017... -
Pearl by Sarah Stanbury
RRP: €15.47€13.11Pearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language. It is a story, according to Sarah... -
Virgil's Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the Aeneid<i/> by David Quint 9780691179384
RRP: €41.65€33.01The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to praise its new master, Augustus Caesar. Things changed... -
English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 by Gary Kelly 9780582492608
€62.45English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period's social history with recent developments in literary criticism,... -
Shakespeare and Sexuality by Catherine M. S. Alexander
RRP: €41.64€34.93This volume draws together ten important essays which use a variety of approaches and materials to explore the significance of sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Some consider the erotic effect of Shakespeare's language in his use of metaphor and the... -
Kazuo Ishiguro: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Sean Matthews 9780826497246
€38.41Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, included twice in Grantas list of Best Young British Writers, has over the past twenty-five years... -
The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi 1817-1837 by Prue Shaw
€40.20Giacomo Leopardi, Italy's great poet of the Romantic age, is the author of some of the most beautiful and best-loved poems in the Italian language and some of the most remarkable letters in European literature. The interest of the letters in both... -
Jane Austen's Lost Novel: Its Importance for Understanding the Development of Her Art. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by P.J. Allen by Jane Austen
€20.97Until the appearance in 1870 of the Memoir written by her nephew J.E. Austen Leigh, very little was known about Jane Austen beyond what could be deduced from her major novels. This had been the family's choice. Despite this lack of information Deidre Le... -
Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction by Steven Ruszczycky
RRP: €32.13€31.98Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male erotic life. Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is... -
Shakespeare and Race by Catherine M. S. Alexander 9780521779388
RRP: €41.64€34.93This volume, first published in 2000, draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama. The authors, who themselves reflect racial and geographical diversity, explore issues of ethnography, politics, religion,... -
Fredric Jameson by Adam Roberts
RRP: €30.93€26.93An invaluable introduction to the life and work of one of today's most important cultural critics. Studied on most undergraduate literary and cultural studies courses, Fredric Jameson's writing targets subjects from architecture to science fiction,... -
Shakespeare's Resources by John Drakakis 9781526174529
RRP: €29.75€26.22Geoffrey Bullough's The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeare's plays with a series of texts on which they were thought to be based. Shakespeare's Resources revisits and... -
Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire by Mann 9780521097956
RRP: €52.35€45.39This book is an attempt to discover the origins and significance of the General Prologue-to the Canterbury Tales. The interest of such an inquiry is many-sided. On the one hand, it throws light on the question of whether `life' or 'literature' was... -
In Defiance of Time: Antiquarian Writing in Early Modern England by Angus Vine 9780199566198
RRP: €163.63€134.85In Defiance of Time explores the emergence of antiquarianism in early modern England, from its first flourishing in the mid-Tudor period through to its seventeenth-century heyday. A vibrant antiquarian culture emerged, which reached beyond scholarly and... -
Shakespeare from the Margin: Language, Culture, Context by Patricia Parker 9780226645858
RRP: €33.32€32.59In the interpretation of Shakespeare, wordplay has often been considered inconsequential, frequently reduced to a decorative "quibble." But in this book, Patricia Parker argues that attention to Shakespearean wordplay reveals unexpected linkages, not... -
Nation and Novel: The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day by Patrick Parrinder 9780199264858
RRP: €45.21€37.01What is 'English' about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel's profound differences from poetry and drama affect its representation of national consciousness? Nation and... -
Realist Vision by Peter Brooks 9780300138962
€35.24A lively and distinctive look at realism in great modern books and art Realist Vision exploresthe claim to represent the world "as it is." Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing... -
Modernism, Space and the City: Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London by Andrew Thacker
RRP: €33.31€26.91This innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.Book InformationISBN 9780748633487Author Andrew ThackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher...