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Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers: Angela Carter and European Gothic by Rebecca Munford 9781784991036
RRP: €23.79€17.28Now available in paperback, Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carter's feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to some of her most contentious... -
The Demonic: Literature and Experience by Ewan Fernie
RRP: €45.21€39.72Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what we're not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open to others and not risk possession ourselves? And where,... -
The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge by Nathan Vedal
RRP: €35.70€32.59Winner, 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of IdeasThe scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368-1644) is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming... -
Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry by Dorothy J. Wang 9780804795272
RRP: €29.74€25.79When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American... -
Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies by Jennifer Andersen
RRP: €33.31€28.73Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence-from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications,... -
From Communion to Cannibalism: An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation by Maggie Kilgour 9780691608556
RRP: €53.55€42.03Focusing on such metaphors as communion and cannibalism in a wide range of Western literary works, Maggie Kilgour examines the opposition between outside and inside and the strategies of incorporation by which it is transcended. This opposition is basic... -
Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic: Hall of Mirrors Nadia Bou Ali 9781474491747
RRP: €24.98€20.46Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic reorients the debates around Arabic and global modernity in relation to psychoanalysis, capitalism and universality. The study offers the first psychoanalytic reading of 19th-century works written during the nahda... -
The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films by Jack Zipes
RRP: €55.92€49.23The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a long overdue, comprehensive look at the rich history of fairy tales and their influence on film, complete with the inclusion of an extensive filmography compiled by the author... -
European Literary History: An Introduction by Maarten de Pourcq
RRP: €47.59€41.72This clear and engaging book offers readers an introduction to European Literary History from antiquity through to the present day. Each chapter discusses a short extract from a literary text, whilst including a close reading and a longer essay examining... -
The New Historicism Reader by Harold Veeser
RRP: €52.35€45.74The New Historicism Reader documents the New Historicists' multiplex achievement, spanning Renaissance and Reagan studies, American realism, English romanticism, gender studies, feminism, and communications and rhetoric. Harold Veeser's introduction... -
History of the Gothic: American Gothic by Charles L. Crow 9780708320440
RRP: €23.79€18.12Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain... -
A Horror and a Beauty: The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels Petr Chalupsky 9788024631615
RRP: €17.85€17.70Peter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London its rich diversity of human experience, mood, and emotion, of actions and events, and of the tools through which all of this heterogeneity is represented and reenacted. But for... -
Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period by Anthony Domestico 9781421423319
€34.19Following the religious turn in other disciplines, literary critics have emphasized how modernists like Woolf and Joyce were haunted by Christianity's cultural traces despite their own lack of belief. In Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period,... -
Love'S Metamorphosis: John Lyly by Leah Scragg
RRP: €17.84€13.23First performed in the 1580s, Love's Metamorphosis is widely regarded as the most elegantly structured of Lyly's plays. The plot looks back to the account of Erisichthon's punishment for the desecration of Ceres' grove in Ovid's Metamorphosis, but the... -
A Funny Way of Being Serious by James A. Simpson 9781904246176
RRP: €7.13€5.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246176Author James A. SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
The Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets by Peter Bing
RRP: €26.18€24.57Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age. Peter Bing's seminal monograph, The Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets, chases this idea through the thickets of... -
Demosthenes, Speeches 20-22 by Edward M. Harris
RRP: €21.41€18.92This is the twelfth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline... -
John Milton: A Short Introduction by Roy C. Flannagan 9780631226208
RRP: €39.21€34.68In this compelling first volume in the Blackwell Introductions to Literature series, Roy Flannagan, editor of The Milton Quarterly, provides a readable and uncluttered critical account of a complicated and sophisticated author, and his poetry and prose. ... -
Children's Literature by Matthew Grenby 9780748649020
RRP: €26.17€21.38This book introduces students to the unique challenges of working with children's literature, updated for this new edition. Unlike the rigidly chronological approach of many introductions to children's literature, the genre-based approach of this volume... -
The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer by Nicholas Grene 9781472568106
€34.59Tom 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... -
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life by Jeffrey Green
RRP: €57.11€49.75Green's study is more than a biography of an Anglo-African composer.The first comprehensive study of Coleridge-Taylor's life for almost a century, it reveals how class-ridden Britain could embrace even the most unlikely of cultural icons.Book... -
Reading for Life by Philip Davis
RRP: €24.38€20.87Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It... -
Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge by Kathryn M. Hunter
RRP: €53.55€42.03A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What becomes of the patient's story when the patient becomes a case? Addressing readers on both sides of the... -
Poetry: The Literary Agenda by David J. Constantine 9780199698479
RRP: €24.38€24.26The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
The Theatre of Martin Crimp: Second Edition by Aleks Sierz
€35.89First published in 2006, Alek's Sierz's The Theatre of Martin Crimp provided a groundbreaking study of one of British theatre's leading contemporary playwrights. Combining Sierz's lucid prose and sharp analysis together with interviews with Martin Crimp... -
Miguel Street (Caribbean Writers Series) by V. S. Naipaul 9780435989545
€16.40Life in Trinidad is described through the eyes of a "street rab" in Miguel Street. The happy-go-lucky community abounds in eccentric characters.Book InformationISBN 9780435989545Author V S NaipaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pearson Education... -
These Circuses That Sweepthrough the Landscape Stories by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
€7.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789384067564Author Tejaswini Apte-RahmFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book Company -
A Companion to Renaissance Drama by Arthur F. Kinney 9781405121798
RRP: €51.11€45.90This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they... -
The Girls of Fog by Namik Dokle 9781035810246
RRP: €11.89€8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035810246Author Namik DokleFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
From a Borrowed Land by Shash Trevett 9781912196647
RRP: €7.74€5.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196647Author Shash TrevettFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern by R. Howard Bloch 9780871406637
RRP: €26.17€22.55The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, backwards and forwards, even sideways, launched modernism. Stephane Mallarme's "One Toss of the Dice" has... -
The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Tale by James Hogg
RRP: €23.79€22.35The Queen's Wake is one of the landmarks of British Romantic poetry. It focuses on the return of Mary, Queen of Scots to Scotland in 1561 to take personal rule of her kingdom after her years in France. In the poem poets and bards hold a poetic... -
Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain by Carissa M. Harris 9781501755293
RRP: €26.17€22.84In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers... -
The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present by Prof. Steven Connor 9780415072311
RRP: €45.21€39.72Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as * George Orwell * William... -
Moments of Capital: World Theory, World Literature by Eli Jelly-Schapiro
RRP: €26.17€22.84Undertaken at the interface of critical theory and world literature, Moments of Capital sets out to grasp the unity and heterogeneity of global capital in the postcolonial present. Eli Jelly-Schapiro argues that global capital is composed of three... -
Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning by David Theo Goldberg 9780631180784
RRP: €45.16€39.70Racist Culture offers an anti-essentialist and non-reductionist account of racialized discourse and racist expression. Goldberg demonstrates that racial thinking is a function of the transforming categories and conceptions of social subjectivity... -
Without God: Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror by Louis Betty
RRP: €34.45€32.78Michel Houellebecq is France's most famous and controversial living novelist. Since his first novel in 1994, Houellebecq's work has been called pornographic, racist, sexist, Islamophobic, and vulgar. His caricature appeared on the cover of the French... -
Julia: by Helen Maria Williams by Natasha Duquette 9781138235915
RRP: €59.49€51.77This critical edition of Julia is the first modern printing of a novel that blends the character development of a poet with critical reflections on social injustice.Book InformationISBN 9781138235915Author Natasha DuquetteFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Body of Beatrice by Robert Pogue Harrison
€32.05Harrison's elegant poems follow in the steps of his work on interpreting the classic "Divine Comedy"by Dante. (Poetry)About the AuthorRobert Pogue Harrison is a professor of literature at Stanford University, where he is Rosina Pierotti Professor in... -
Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays: Radical Contemplative by Mark Fulk 9780367759551
RRP: €47.59€41.72Interpreting Susan Sontag's Essays: Radical Contemplative offers its readers a scholarly examination of her essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetic theory. This study sets up a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts...