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Enumerations: Data and Literary Study by Andrew Piper
RRP: $46.80$44.91For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data-or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments in... -
Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture by Jonathan Freedman
RRP: $54.58$47.07A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"Our understanding of the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fertilized the aestheticist breeding grounds of Anglo-American modernism takes a leap forward with Freedman's Professions of Taste, an ambitiously theorized,... -
Still Crazy After All These Years: Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis by Rachel Bowlby 9780415573061
RRP: $105.28$91.40The starting point for this book, first published in 1992, is a question of rhetoric - as much in the writings of feminism as in other writing about women. How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for... -
Anna Komnene and Her Times by Thalia Gouma-Peterson 9780815338512
RRP: $81.88$71.66This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anna Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on her times and on subsequent historical works of literature.About the Author Thalia Gouma-Peterson , is... -
Edda: Skaldskaparmal by Anthony Faulkes
RRP: $46.80$38.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521345Author Snorri SturlusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics by Reuven Tsur
RRP: $31.69$31.24This book has three distinctive characteristics: (1) It offers a widely interdisciplinary perspective; (2) It provides a comprehensive view of poetry, with groups of chapters on the Sound Stratum of Poetry (rhyme patterns and gestalt theory; metre and... -
Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky by Kadya Molodowsky 9780814327180
RRP: $64.25$57.10Kadya Molodowsky (1894-1975) was among the most accomplished and prolific of modern Yiddish poets. Between 1927 and 1974, she published six major books of poetry, as well as fiction, plays, essays, and children's tales. Molodowsky participated in nearly... -
Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology by Noah Heringman 9780801476266
RRP: $64.35$56.65Why are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain as the locus of a "voice... to repeal / large codes of fraud and woe"? Why does a cliff, in the boat-stealing episode of Wordsworth's... -
Wittgenstein and Modernism by Michael LeMahieu 9780226420400
RRP: $60.45$58.87Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary." But few books have really followed up on these claims,... -
Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations by Robert J. Begiebing 9780807178133
$72.64Norman Mailer at 100 celebrates the author's centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut novel, The Naked and the Dead, by illustrating how Mailer remains a provocative presence in American letters... -
Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain by Clare Hanson 9781138109490
RRP: $85.78$74.96This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy, genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary texts,... -
Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness by Sarah Beckwith 9780801478352
RRP: $40.93$35.82Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of religious life. Whereas priests had once acted as... -
Green Thumb by Craig Miller-Randle 9781760986469
$43.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Australian Book Design Awards 2022 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781760986469Author Craig Miller-RandleFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint... -
The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque by J. A. Garrido Ardila
RRP: $60.43$42.69Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Aleman, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express... -
Musings on Mortality: From Tolstoy to Primo Levi by Victor Brombert
RRP: $29.25$25.45“All art and the love of art,” Victor Brombert writes at the beginning of the deeply personal Musings on Mortality, “allow us to negate our nothingness.” As a young man returning from World War II, Brombert came to understand this truth as he immersed... -
George Eliot and The Woman Question by Gillian Beer
RRP: $68.23$64.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454649Author Gillian BeerFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus: A Routledge Study Guide by Helen Stoddart 9780415350129
RRP: $74.08$65.09A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted much... -
Four Shakespearean Period Pieces by Margreta de Grazia
RRP: $46.80$44.91In the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. Yet recent theoretical work has called for their reappraisal... -
Judge for Yourself: Reading Hyper-Contemporary Literature and Book Prize Shortlists by Nicholas Taylor-Collins
RRP: $46.78$40.93Judge for Yourself guides interested and advanced-level readers through the challenge of judging the quality of hyper-contemporary literature. Whether reading the latest bestseller or the book that everyone is recommending, Judge for Yourself guides you... -
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks by John Curran 9780062065438
RRP: $33.13$22.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Anthony Awards (Critical Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780062065438Author John CurranFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
Introducing Children's Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism Deborah Cogan Thacker 9780415204118
RRP: $74.08$65.09Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each... -
Samuel Beckett's How it is: Philosophy in Translation Anthony Cordingley 9781474440615
RRP: $54.58$44.09This book maps out the novel's complex network of intertexts, sources and echoes, interprets its highly experimental writing and explains the work's great significance for twentieth-century literature.Book InformationISBN 9781474440615Author Anthony... -
Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $42.88$37.42Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of literary theory and cultural studies, needlessly obscure? The claim has been widely circulated in the media and subject to passionate debate, but it has not been the subject of serious discussion... -
The Poems of W. B. Yeats: Volume Two: 1890-1898 by Peter McDonald 9780367529314
RRP: $77.98$70.32In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems... -
Modern Italian Literature by Ann Hallamore Caesar 9780745628004
RRP: $35.08$31.28This authoritative and vividly written book brings readers into the heart of Italian literary culture from the 1690s to the present. It probes the work of major authors in their broad cultural context, traces the history of audiences and publishers,... -
Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s by George Hutchinson
RRP: $58.50$46.20Mythologized as the era of the "good war" and the "Greatest Generation," the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of... -
Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales by Martyn Bone 9780820351865
$120.86Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that... -
Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose by Jonathan Boulter 9781474430265
RRP: $42.88$39.21Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.Book InformationISBN 9781474430265Author Jonathan BoulterFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh... -
Lucian Opera Tomus I (Books I-XXV) by M. D. Macleod 9780198146568
$87.28Lucian Opera Tomus I (Books I-XXV)Book InformationISBN 9780198146568Author M. D. MacleodPage Count 360Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 193mm * 131mm * 26mm -
Gallery of Clouds by Rachel Eisendrath
RRP: $35.08$23.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375434Author Rachel EisendrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 3 by Diana E. Henderson
RRP: $72.13$63.43This volume takes up the challenge embodied in its predecessors, Alternative Shakespeares and Alternative Shakespeares 2, to identify and explore the new, the changing and the radically 'other' possibilities for Shakespeare Studies at our particular... -
Metaphysical Exile: On J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin 9780197565940
RRP: $136.50$124.29Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee's "Jesus" fictions constitute a trilogy of novels that have appeared over the last decade. They stand out from his earlier work in their difficulty, and in the central role they accord philosophy--in part through... -
Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse: Exploring Particle Use across Genres by Anna Bonifazi
RRP: $62.30$51.03The study of ancient Greek particles has been an integral part of the study of the Greek language from its earliest beginnings. Among the first parts of speech to be distinguished in Greek scholarship were the ("combiners"), which include the... -
Ian Fleming and James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007 by Edward P. Comentale
RRP: $40.93$37.67"This is a compelling and important book . . . [that] makes a significant contribution not only to studies of Bond and Ian Fleming but also to studies of popular culture in general." -Michael BerubeThe Cold War agent of pulp fiction and the hero of more... -
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare by Victor Kiernan
RRP: $35.08$31.08'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in "a more realistic light".' Times Literary Supplement The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of... -
Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile by Amy L. Hubbell 9780803264908
RRP: $87.75$76.40Colonized by the French in 1830, Algeria was an important French settler colony that, unlike its neighbors, endured a lengthy and brutal war for independence from 1954 to 1962. The nearly one million Pieds-Noirs (literally "black-feet") were former... -
Angles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to AElfric by Joseph Grossi
RRP: $120.90$98.61From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envisioned a unified England. Although they were not regional writers in the modern sense, Bede, Felix, the... -
Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction by Debayan Deb Barman 9781793649577
RRP: $157.95$138.57Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction... -
Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture by Northrop Frye 9780802086952
RRP: $83.85$70.61In the 1970s and 80s, Northrop Frye and Jay Macpherson co-taught a very influential course at the University of Toronto's Victoria College on the history of Western mythology - Frye focusing on the biblical myths; Macpherson on the classical. Biblical... -
The Sonnets of Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke 9781587318450
RRP: $21.45$18.29Romano Guardini described Rainer Maria Rilke as the "poet who had things of such importance to say about the end of our own age [and] was also a prophet of things to come." The complexity of Rilke is, then, "highly relevant to modern Man." Decades after...