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The Family in English Children's Literature by Ann Alston
RRP: £45.99£40.13From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine's Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson's Tracy Beaker, it might seem that the traditional family and the ideals that accompany it have long vanished... -
The Novels of Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book, first published in 1977, is not about Bloomsbury, lesbianism, madness or suicide, but is a much-needed introduction to Virginia Woolf's nine novels, written in the hope of turning attention back from the life to the fictional work. Its clarity... -
Fontamara: Enrico Iv, Sei Perso by Silone Rawson 9780719006623
RRP: £14.99£13.64Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a... -
The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street Life, 1700-1914 by Rick Allen
RRP: £19.99£17.69The Moving Pageant is the first annotated anthology of writings on London street life. It comprises nearly one hundred extracts from over two centuries of literary life, including pieces by: * Alexander Pope * Jonathan Swift * Daniel Defoe * Samuel... -
Germany: Beyond the Enchanted Forest: A Literary Anthology by Brian Melican 9781908493774
RRP: £15.00£13.65'German military figures had a certain terrifying glamour,' wrote Patrick Leigh Fermor, recalling views about Germany during the First World War. When, he asked, had the bristling general replaced the 'philosophers and composers and bandsmen and peasants... -
Shakespeare's Accents: Voicing Identity in Performance by Sonia Massai
RRP: £22.99£20.66Voices and accents are increasingly perceived as central markers of identity in Shakespearean performance. This book presents a history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage with a focus on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance... -
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 2, Williams, Miller, Albee by C. W. E. Bigsby 9780521277174
RRP: £44.99£38.14This is the second volume in Christopher Bigsby's critical history of the important American dramatists and theatrical movements in the twentieth-century. Volume 1 brought the story to 1940 and included the last plays of O'Neill. In two further volumes... -
A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation by Deborah Cartmell 9781118917534
RRP: £38.95£35.95This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of theoretical approaches, and chapters... -
Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science by Mary Jacobus
RRP: £39.99£35.06Body/Politics demonstrates how many of the controversies in modern science involve or invoke the feminine body as their battleground. This groundbreaking collection addresses such scientific issues as artificial fertilization, the "crisis" in childbirth... -
Conversations with Saul Bellow by Gloria Gronin 9780878057184
RRP: £29.95£27.41For over forty years Saul Bellow has been writing fiction that denounces the destructive forces that have dominated the literature of this century--existential nihilism and historicist pessimism. In novel after novel--The Adventures of Augie March,... -
Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Juliet John
RRP: £24.99£21.81Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist is one of the most significant novels of the Victorian era and having been adapted for both stage and screen, retains its impact in the cultural consciousness of many nations. Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to... -
Dinarchus, Hyperides, and Lycurgus by Ian Worthington 9780292791435
RRP: £19.99£17.54This is the fifth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline... -
The Rhetoric of English India by Sara Suleri
RRP: £27.00£26.47Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a... -
Africana Critical Theory: Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral by Reiland Rabaka 9780739128862
RRP: £61.00£53.56Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to... -
Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat and Survival by Ian Garner
RRP: £62.00£43.75In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler's army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent their finest writers into the heat of battle. After... -
Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare by John S. Mebane
RRP: £19.99£17.54For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult. The three greatest playwrights of the period devoted major plays (The Tempest, Doctor Faustus, The... -
Dedalus Book of Medieval Literature by Brian O. Murdoch
RRP: £10.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873982020Author Brian O. MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd -
The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600 by Mary Baine Campbell
RRP: £31.00£27.36Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination. Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims,... -
Dannie Abse: A Sourcebook by Dannie Abse 9781854115072
RRP: £14.99£10.77Apologies 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 -
All That Is Wales: The Collected Essays of M. Wynn Thomas by M. Wynn Thomas 9781786830890
RRP: £14.99£11.66Wales may be small, but culturally it is richly varied. The aim in this collection of essays on a number of English-language authors from Wales is to offer a sample of the country's internal diversity. To that end, the author's examined range - from the... -
After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century by Sherryl Vint
RRP: £24.99£21.18After the Human provides a comprehensive overview of how a range of philosophical, ethical, and political ideas under the framework of posthumanism have transformed humanities scholarship today. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary scholars and... -
The Sense of Brown by José Esteban Muñoz 9781478011033
RRP: £20.99£18.30The Sense of Brown is Jose Esteban Munoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Munoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho... -
The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature by Glyn S. Burgess 9780708321966
RRP: £39.99£33.77This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages". Its intention is to update the French and Occitan chapters in R.S. Loomis' "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History" (Oxford,... -
100 Greatest Literary Detectives by Eric Sandberg 9781442278226
RRP: £43.00£38.18Crime fiction is one of the most popular literary genres and has been for more than a century. At the heart of almost all forms of mysteries-from the Golden Age puzzler to the contemporary police procedural, from American hardboiled fiction to the... -
Girl on the Sofa by Jon Fosse
RRP: £9.99£9.81A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself as a young girl, sitting on a sofa, but... -
New Readings on Women in Old English Literature by Helen Damico
RRP: £16.99£15.07The publication of this volume of essays is a milestone in Old English studies. It is the first collection to examine this literature from a feminist perspective. Although the contributors represent a plurality of approaches and positions, they share a... -
Late Modernist Poetics: From Pound to Prynne by Anthony Mellors 9780719058868
RRP: £19.99£17.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook by Joan Tasker Grimbert
RRP: £41.99£37.15A substantial introduction traces the Tristan and Isolde legend from the twelfth century to the present, emphasizing literary versions, but also surveying the legend's sources and its appearance in the visual arts, music and film. The nineteen essays... -
Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary by Bill Nichols
RRP: £16.99£15.88". . . a valuable and important book . . ." -The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryRepresenting Reality is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice. It addresses numerous social issues and how they are... -
Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film by Darryl Jones
£37.07What is the audience for horror? Why should we want to read books or watch films that make us afraid, or that contain acts of violence or depravity? Horror has had an established tradition in both fiction and film. From books such as Frankenstein and The... -
Newton by Sir Isaac Newton 9780393959024
£19.04The book is divided into nine parts-Natural Philosophy, Scientific Method, Experimental Procedure, Optics, Rational Mechanics, Systems of the World, Alchemy and Theory of Matter, Theology, and Mathematics. Text and commentary are woven together, enabling... -
Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England by Eleanor Johnson 9780226830179
RRP: £24.00£23.03A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England. While the scale of today's crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the late Middle Ages, when a convergence of land... -
Muriel Spark's Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form by James Bailey
RRP: £20.99£17.19A compelling reappraisal of Spark's approach to literary experimentation Offers a distinctive reappraisal of Spark's fiction, which challenges the rigid critical framework that has long been applied to her writing Interrogates how Spark's literary... -
Reading Homer's Odyssey by Kostas Myrsiades 9781684481361
RRP: £19.99£17.54Finalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section Homer's Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey... -
Ecosemiotic Landscape: A Novel Perspective for the Toolbox of Environmental Humanities by Almo Farina
RRP: £17.00£14.72The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship between... -
Classical Arabic Stories: An Anthology by Salma Khadra Jayyusi 9780231149235
RRP: £35.00£27.74Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world, providing the perfect vehicle for transmitting dazzling images of life and experiences as early as pre-Islamic times. These works also speak to the urbanization of the Arab domain... -
A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance by Barbara Hodgdon 9781405188210
RRP: £42.95£38.57A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides a state-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field of Shakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. Considers performance in a range of media,... -
A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition by Joseph Farrell 9781118785126
RRP: £37.95£33.88A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights... -
The Voyage of St Brendan: Representative Versions of the Legend in English Translation with Indexes of Themes and Motifs from the Stories by Glyn S. Burgess 9780859897556
£37.75In recent years Brendan's voyage has become increasingly popular as a topic of interest, not only in medieval studies, but also within the history of travel literature in general. One of the legend's charms is that it can be read in a number of ways: as... -
Rituals of Self-revelation: Shishosetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-cultural Phenomenon by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit 9780674773196
RRP: £38.95£31.69Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit brings a sophisticated and graceful method of analysis to this English translation of her book on the shishosetsu, one of the most important yet misunderstood genres in Japanese literature. Thorough and insightful, this study...