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The 'Danzig Trilogy' of Gunter Grass: A Study of the Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years by John Reddick 9780156238298
RRP: £25.00£17.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156238298Author John ReddickFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 143mm *... -
The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal by Michael Steinberg
RRP: £21.99£19.19In this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics-of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law. Modern renderings of... -
This is Not a Grail Romance: Understanding Peredur Vab Efrawc by Natalia Petrovskaia 9781837720361
RRP: £24.99£18.80This is Not a Grail Romance provides answers to some of the most important questions surrounding the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Historia Peredur vab Efrawc, one of the few surviving medieval Welsh narrative compositions, and an important member of the... -
The Oxford Literary History of Wales: Volume 2. Writing in Welsh, c. 1740-2010: A Troubled Heritage by T. Robin Chapman 9780199562268
£118.28This book represents the longest single-volume work on modern Welsh literature ever published, and proceeds from two broad perspectives. First, avoiding the traditional intrinsic and extrinsic approaches to literary history as the story of literary... -
Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome by Tom Geue 9780674988200
RRP: £40.95£32.83An exploration of the darker corners of ancient Rome to spotlight the strange sorcery of anonymous literature.From Banksy to Elena Ferrante to the unattributed parchments of ancient Rome, art without clear authorship fascinates and even offends us... -
Up Tae My Neck in Paperwork by Harry J. Morris
RRP: £7.99£6.15The hilarious adventures of Harry the Polis, as recalled by ex-polis Harry Morris, the self-appointed Chief Constable of funny stories, continue with the publication of his seventh book, Up Tae my Neck in Paperwork. Here is another collection of stories,... -
The Lost Origins of the Essay by John D'Agata 9781555975326
RRP: £25.00£18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975326Author John D'AgataFormat PaperbackPage Count 695Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *... -
The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories Kurahashi Yumiko 9780765601582
RRP: £37.99£33.38This is an English-language anthology dedicated to the short stories of Kurahashi Yumiko (1935-), a Japanese novelist of profound intellectual powers. The eleven stories included in this volume suggest the breadth of the author's literary production,... -
An Analysis of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion John Donaldson 9781912128952
RRP: £6.50£6.11David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of the critical thinking skills of reasoning and evaluation. Hume's subject, the question of the existence and possible nature of God, was, and... -
Tolstoy in Context by Anna A. Berman
£80.43Likened to a second Tsar in Russia and attaining prophet-like status around the globe, Tolstoy made an impact on literature and the arts, religion, philosophy, and politics. His novels and stories both responded to and helped to reshape the European and... -
The Flowers of Tarbes: or, Terror in Literature by Jean Paulhan
RRP: £31.00£27.36Paulhan's seminal work in English for the first timePaulhan's seminal work in English for the first timeAbout the AuthorJean Paulhan (1884-1968) is often referred to as the "grey eminence" of the publishing world in France, where he played a central role... -
Madness and the Romantic Poet: A Critical History by James Whitehead 9780198733706
£85.70Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets by Mark Richardson 9781107560789
RRP: £30.99£26.43The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin by Ken Hirschkop 9781107109049
RRP: £49.99£44.97In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin's texts,... -
Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance by Corinne Saunders
RRP: £95.00£84.75The themes of magic and the supernatural in medieval romance are here fully explored and put into the context of thinking at the time in this first full study of the subject. The world of medieval romance is one in which magic and the supernatural are... -
Agatha Christie Goes to War by Rebecca Mills 9781032239941
RRP: £39.99£35.06Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing. This interdisciplinary collection of essays considers the effects of these conflicts on the social and psychological textures... -
Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking by Andrea Gadberry
RRP: £24.00£23.03What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of Rene Descartes and finds them in the philosopher's implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes's thought was... -
The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010 by Edward Larrissy 9781107462847
RRP: £23.99£20.37The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010 brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War, a period of significant achievement in which varied styles and approaches have flourished... -
Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science by Suparna Roychoudhury 9781501726552
RRP: £43.00£37.50Representations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare's artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is not there, and Prospero humbling his enemies with spectacular illusions... -
On the Heroic Frenzies: A Translation of De gli eroici furori (1585) by Giordano Bruno 9781487552060
RRP: £35.00£31.14Italian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition and burned at the stake, has long been an enigma of early modern European philosophy. His central 1586 work On the Heroic Frenzies has... -
History of My Life: Volumes 3 and 4 by Giacomo Casanova
£43.43Volumes 3 and 4 offer some of the most extraordinary episodes in Casanova's extraordinary life, including his liaison with the nun M. M., and his flight from the State Inquisitor's prison-each in its own way a feat of singular dash and daring.The... -
The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam: Chapters 11-12 of the Skand Gumanig-Wizar by Mardanfarrox son of Ohrmazddad Christian C. Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History) 9781802078527
£111.61Zoroastrianism was the religion of the ancient Persian kings and following the Arab conquest, it remained the religion of a significant portion of the population in Iran and parts of Central Asia. This book investigates the most important polemical... -
The Death Arts in Renaissance England: A Critical Anthology by William E. Engel
£85.36The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a... -
Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque by Mohja Kahf 9780292743373
RRP: £19.99£17.54Veiled, secluded, submissive, oppressed-the "odalisque" image has held sway over Western representations of Muslim women since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Yet during medieval and Renaissance times, European writers portrayed Muslim... -
Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Receipt Books by Kristine Kowalchuk
RRP: £32.00£26.90Apricot wine and stewed calf's head, melancholy medicine and "ointment of roses." Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books-handwritten manuals that... -
Dante's British Public: Readers and Texts, from the Fourteenth Century to the Present by Nick Havely 9780198812395
£42.64This is the first account of Dante's reception in English to address full chronological span of that process. Individual authors and periods have been studied before, but Dante's British Public takes a wider and longer view, using a selection of vivid... -
Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish,Spivak,Zizek and Others by Terry Eagleton 9781859843888
RRP: £19.99£18.35Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontes, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer - Terry Eagleton's achievements are many and his combative intelligence widely admired and respected. His... -
The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon by Scott Lyall
RRP: £24.95£18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980137Author Scott LyallFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
The Pleasures of Japanese Literature by Donald Keene 9780231067379
RRP: £25.00£22.43Perhaps no one is more qualified to write about Japanese culture than Donald Keene, considered the leading interpreter of that nation's literature to the Western world. The author, editor, or translator of nearly three dozen books of criticism and works... -
American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2: A Cultural History by Will Kaufman
RRP: £29.99£26.34Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress... -
The Empty Space by Peter Brook
RRP: £16.99£9.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684829579Author Peter BrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)... -
A Companion to Science Fiction by David Seed 9781405184373
RRP: £42.95£38.57A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction.Shows how science... -
Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany by Maria Tatar
RRP: £40.00£36.07In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting,... -
100 Must-read Life-changing Books by Nick Rennison
RRP: £13.99£11.04Novels which transform our ideas about human possibilities, biographies which celebrate the achievements of extraordinary individuals, polemical works of non-fiction which oblige us to alter our views of the world or of human society: all of us can... -
Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction by Sue Kossew
RRP: £43.99£38.44Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous... -
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 by John Richetti 9781107604599
£41.09The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical... -
Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose by Robert Duncan 9780520324848
RRP: £30.00£23.69This volume in the Collected Writings of Robert Duncan series gathers a far-reaching selection of Robert Duncan's prose writings including most of his longer and more well-known essays along with other prose that has never been widely available. Ranging... -
A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937: Disgust, Metaphysics and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror by Jonathan Newell
RRP: £30.00£24.17A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937 offers a new critical perspective on the weird that combines two ways of looking at weird and cosmic horror. On the one hand, critics have considered weird fiction in relation to aesthetics - the emotional effects... -
Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization by George P. Landow
RRP: £30.50£27.77George Landow's widely acclaimed Hypertext was the first book to bring together the worlds of literary theory and computer technology. Landow was one of the first scholars to explore the implications of giving readers instant, easy access to a virtual... -
D.M.Thomas by Bran Nicol 9780746309421
£17.08D.M. Thomas is one of the most controversial writers of our time - considered by some a major voice in contemporary fiction, by others a dubious literary 'impostor' who repeatedly appropriates female sexuality, the holocaust and the work of other writers...