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The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo by John N. Duvall 9780521690898
RRP: $44.83$36.15With the publication of his seminal novel White Noise, Don DeLillo was elevated into the pantheon of great American writers. His novels are admired and studied for their narrative technique, political themes, and their prophetic commentary on the... -
A Companion to Charles Dickens by David Paroissien 9780470657942
RRP: $79.85$70.77A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens s world. * Puts Dickens s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts * Traces the development of Dickens s career as a... -
Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews by Sarah Lightman 9780786465538
RRP: $56.53$46.90The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life. In particular, the lives of 18 Jewish women artists who bare all in their work, which appeared in the internationally acclaimed... -
Lazarillo de Tormes by Ilan Stavans 9780393938050
RRP: $25.33$22.35Based on Ilan Stavans' new translation which accurately captures the verve of the original, this Norton Critical Edition includes: an introduction and explanatory annotations; contextual materials highlighting the novella's strong anticlerical views and... -
Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait by Andrew Rankin 9780824883089
RRP: $40.85$23.87Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the world, Mishima has often been scorned by scholars, who... -
La Place by Annie Ernaux
RRP: $74.08$65.09The full French text is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.Book InformationISBN 9780415059268Author Annie ErnauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint... -
Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway by Margret Grebowicz 9780231149297
RRP: $54.60$42.51Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying... -
Mothers in Mourning by Nicole Loraux
RRP: $58.48$51.68"Nicole Loraux brilliantly elucidates how Athenian politics were 'gendered' in the Classical period. She investigates the Athenian state's interdiction of ritualized mourning by women, in a city where public mourning constituted a vital act of civic... -
Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic by Christopher Prendergast 9780691155203
$105.20Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in... -
On Sympathy by Sophie Ratcliffe 9780199239870
$191.92What happens when we engage with fictional characters? How do our imaginative engagements bear on our actions in the wider world? Moving between the literary and the philosophical, Sophie Ratcliffe considers the ways in which readers feel when they read,... -
Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama by Hanna M. Roisman
RRP: $48.73$39.86The heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia,... -
Framing Roberto Bolano: Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics by Jonathan Beck Monroe
RRP: $60.43$37.13Poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bolano's work have established him as a representative, generational figure in not only Chile, Mexico, and Spain, the three principal locations of his life and... -
Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader by Elizabeth Fallaize
RRP: $77.98$68.37This is the first volume to gather together all the classic critical texts on Simone de Beauvoir's work as a feminist, novelist and philosopher. The essays are divided into three sections examining her fiction, her life and her famous work The Second Sex... -
Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology by Leonard Lawlor
RRP: $37.03$32.60"[A] magnificent work . . . that will definitely shape the discussion on Derrida for years to come." -Rodolphe GascheWhat is the nature of the relationship of Jacques Derrida and deconstruction to Edmund Husserl and phenomenology? Is deconstruction a... -
A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts by Mark Bland 9781118492154
RRP: $66.20$58.46A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts Winner, Honourable Mention... -
An Analysis of Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein's Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness Mark Egan 9781912128037
RRP: $12.68$11.91When it was published in 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness quickly became one of the most influential books in modern economics and politics. Within a short time, it had inspired whole... -
Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory by Raymond Tallis 9780333639269
RRP: $116.98$106.72This work subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to an examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between language, reality and self.Book InformationISBN... -
Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe by Matt Yockey
RRP: $46.78$41.42The creation of the Fantastic Four effectively launched the Marvel Comics brand in 1961. Within ten years, the introduction (or reintroduction) of characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and the X-Men catapulted Marvel past... -
Cicero Epistulae. Vol II. Part ii: (ad Att. 9-16) by D. R. Shackleton Bailey 9780198146414
$75.56Cicero Epistulae. Vol II. Part ii (ad Att. 9-16)Book InformationISBN 9780198146414Author D. R. Shackleton BaileyPage Count 368Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 193mm * 129mm * 25mm -
Three Days by the Sea by Helen E. Mundler 9781910688694
RRP: $29.23$21.35In the Ellis family, no-one talks about Susie but no-one can forget her - until Gina and Robert receive invitations to a family reunion by the sea in Cornwall. As the three days unfold, the stories and secrets of each character are mapped against... -
Companion to Victor Pelevin by Sofya Khagi 9781644697764
RRP: $46.78$44.56Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. It provides a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, and... -
Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913 by Joan Passey
RRP: $146.25$118.05This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes in Cornwall that spurred this interest – from the collapse of the mining industry to the developing... -
How Words Make Things Happen by David Bromwich
RRP: $57.51$49.76Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker's control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy... -
Kazuo Ishiguro by Wai-Chew Sim
RRP: $44.83$39.31Having 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... -
George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic: Compelling Contradictions by Constance Fulmer
RRP: $81.88$71.66George Eliot's serious readers have been intrigued by the fact that she declared that she had lost her faith in God and had renounced her hope for a traditional Christian heaven and yet she continued to preach her own version of morality in everything... -
The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter J. Kalliney
RRP: $74.10$58.52How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways... -
The Novel and the New Ethics by Dorothy J. Hale 9781503614062
RRP: $54.58$47.07For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature. Dissatisfied with postmodernist parody and pastiche, a broad array of... -
New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts
$22.74The poems in this remarkable first collection have been hard won: 'Fruits of much grief they are,' as Donne said, 'emblems of more.' Having lost ten years to heroin addiction and recovery, Sam Willetts emerges now - suddenly, and apparently from nowhere... -
Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice by Redi Koobak 9780367726607
RRP: $77.98$68.37Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the... -
Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader by David Theo Goldberg 9780631189121
RRP: $81.80$74.04Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader delineates the prevailing concerns and considerations, principles and practices, concepts and categories that fall under the rubric of "multiculturalism".About the AuthorDavid Theo Goldberg teaches in the School of... -
Jung as a Writer Susan Rowland (Susan Rowland (Dr), Reader in English and Jungian Studies, University of Greenwich) 9781583919026
RRP: $83.83$73.30Jung as a Writer traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analysing his texts using the methodology of literary theory. This investigation serves to illuminate the literary nature of Jung's writing in order to shed new light on his psychology... -
The Idea of English Ethnicity by Robert J. C. Young 9781405101295
RRP: $64.25$57.60The Idea of English Ethnicity "Robert Young has written a compelling and thorough textual history of English ethnicity and its discursive relation to the history of racial theory. Comprehensive, carefully considered, and clearly written, this book sets... -
Foucault'S Theatres by Tony Fisher
RRP: $38.98$28.31The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and performance studies via Foucault's critical thought. With cutting edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as dramaturgy, film, music, cultural history and journalism, the... -
Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture by Leo Mellor
RRP: $60.43$37.13From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions, the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to the Second World War, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments... -
An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Alexander Beecroft
$46.61What is a literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with each other? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book... -
Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge by Natalia Cecire 9781421433776
RRP: $59.48$57.95A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits.In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental... -
The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams 9780811209342
RRP: $15.58$13.69Spanning fifty-four years, this collection record the creative growth of one of the twentieth century's most influential and versatile writers.About the AuthorBesides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a poet,... -
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter by Professor Seth Lerer 9780226473000
RRP: $85.80$83.21Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where... -
Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language by Abdelfattah Kilito 9780815635604
$35.28It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious... -
Conversations by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: $37.03$31.55I wrote a poem this morning, and one of the themes of the poem is that languages are not equivalent, that each language is a new way of feeling the world. Jorge Luis Borges Recorded during Borges' final years, this third volume of his conversations with...