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Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a literacy legacy by Derek Hand 9781782053293
$87.91This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an event which sparked something akin to a period of national... -
The Beats in Mexico by David Stephen Calonne
RRP: $54.58$47.23Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac's On the Road to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S... -
Dream Notes Theodor W. Adorno (The Frankfurt School) 9780745638300
RRP: $84.00$74.24"Dreams are as black as death." -Theodor W. Adorno Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He envisaged publishing a collection of them although in the event no more than a few appeared in his lifetime. Dream Notes... -
On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal by Rachel Greenwald Smith
RRP: $27.28$19.66A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal society's tendency to view compromise as an unalloyed good-politically, ethically, and artistically. In... -
Life Into Art: Italo Svevo and the Novel by Peter Davies
RRP: $31.40$28.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996508Author Peter DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange LtdWeight(grams) 135g -
Infinite Fictions: Essays on Literature and Theory by David Winters 9781782798033
RRP: $27.28$15.62David Winters has quickly become a leading voice in the new landscape of online literary criticism. His widely-published work maps the furthest frontiers of contemporary fiction and theory. The essays in this book range from the American satirist Sam... -
The Book On The Bookshelf by Henry Petroski 9780375706394
RRP: $33.58$24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706394Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past by William Logan 9780231186148
RRP: $63.00$48.91In Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can... -
Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony by Linda Hutcheon
RRP: $79.78$70.10The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding.Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable... -
Frankenstein's Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction by Jane Donawerth 9780815603955
RRP: $35.60$29.44Beginning with the birth of science fiction in Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"", Jane Donawerth takes a broad look at science fiction and utopian literature written by women. In a creative close reading of ""Frankenstein"", Donawerth pinpoints the gender... -
Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach James Lull (San Jose State University) 9780745621913
RRP: $37.78$34.21Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of the leading scholars in the discipline, draws from a wide range of social and... -
A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets Michael Schoenfeldt (University of Michigan, USA) 9781444332063
RRP: $88.10$77.36This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare's sonnets. An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets.Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson by Joel Porte 9780521499460
RRP: $48.28$41.08The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the... -
The Urewera Notebook by Katherine Mansfield by Anna Plumridge
RRP: $79.80$72.72This an authoritative scholarly edition of Mansfield's camping journal, offering new understandings of her colonial life. Katherine Mansfield filled the first half of the 'Urewera Notebook' during a 1907 camping tour of the central North Island, shortly... -
A Brief Guide to Jeeves and Wooster Nigel Cawthorne 9781780338248
RRP: $18.88$13.23A comprehensive guide to P. G. Wodehouse's two best-loved comic characters, Bertram Wilbeforce Wooster and his valet ('Reggie') Jeeves, Bertie's friends and relatives and their world of sunshine, country houses and champagne. Although the stories may... -
Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Patrick J. Murphy 9780271077710
RRP: $159.50$142.95Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all time-classics such as "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" that have been adapted many times over for radio and television and have never gone out of print. But... -
Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation by Ato Quayson 9780231139038
RRP: $58.80$45.78Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal... -
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres by Joseph Monteyne 9781487527747
RRP: $102.90$89.52In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with... -
Lyric Poetry: The Pain and the Pleasure of Words by Mutlu Konuk Blasing 9780691126821
RRP: $126.00$98.07Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry,... -
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
RRP: $50.38$44.44What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts-and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading-are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations for book... -
An Analysis of David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character Jarrod Homer 9781912128174
RRP: $13.65$13.04David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd: A Study in the Changing American Character is one of the best-known books in the history of sociology - holding a mirror up to contemporary America and showing the nation its own character as it had never seen it before... -
The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition by Elias Muhanna 9780691191454
RRP: $58.80$46.49A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world-al-Nuwayri's The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest... -
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Ben Davies 9780192857682
RRP: $159.60$145.11Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published... -
Shakespeare: Othello by Tony Bromham
$54.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333404072Author Tony BromhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 153g -
Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood by Laurie Maguire 9781405126359
RRP: $73.40$64.24Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an epic... -
Aristotle Categoriae et Liber de Interpretatione by L. Minio-Paluello 9780198145073
$74.59Aristotle Categoriae et Liber de InterpretationeBook InformationISBN 9780198145073Author L. Minio-PaluelloFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 12mm -
Delectus ex Iambis et Elegis Graecis by the late M. L. West 9780198145899
$63.34A selection from the two volumes of Iambi et Elegi Graeci.Book InformationISBN 9780198145899Author the late M. L. WestPage Count 306Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm * 23mm -
The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe by John Richetti
RRP: $54.58$46.18Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll... -
Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage by Dr. Graham Jones
RRP: $65.10$61.55The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is increasingly gaining the prestige that its astonishing inventiveness calls for in the Anglo-American theoretical context. His wide-ranging works on the history of philosophy, cinema, painting, literature and politics... -
Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives by Robert Stark 9780192884763
RRP: $147.00$133.85Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives is the first full-length critical study of this canonical writer to appear in English. It challenges the many myths that have surrounded Dowson's life and work for more than a century, contending that, in his distinct theory of... -
Stefan Zweig and World Literature: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives Birger Vanwesenbeeck (Customer) 9781640140073
RRP: $62.98$60.92A new critical assessment of the works of the Austrian-Jewish author, in whom there has been a recent resurgence of interest, from the perspective of world literature. The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical... -
Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean by Aliyah Khan 9781978806641
RRP: $69.30$61.01Honorable Mention, 2022 MLA Prize for a First Book Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic work on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean. Khan focuses on the fiction, poetry, and music of Islam in Guyana, Trinidad, and... -
Muriel Spark's Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form by James Bailey
RRP: $44.08$36.10A 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... -
Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu by Gary William Crawford 9781614980056
RRP: $52.50$46.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Bram Stoker Awards (Nonfiction) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781614980056Author Gary William CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Hippocampus... -
Post-traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties by Kirby Farrell 9780801857874
RRP: $60.90$55.61According to Kirby Farrell, the concept of trauma has shaped some of the central narratives of the 1990s-from the war stories of Vietnam vets to the video farewells of Heaven's Gate cult members, from apocalyptic sci-fi movies to Ronald Reagan's memoir, ... -
Nestor Perlongher: The Poetic Search for an Argentine Marginal Voice by Ben Bollig 9780708321232
RRP: $31.50$26.38This book is the first full-length study in English of the work of the highly regarded and influential Argentine poet and anthropologist Nestor Perlongher (1949-92). Perlongher's pioneering work takes on the most dynamic and conflictive themes of... -
My World--and Welcome to it by James Thurber 9780156623445
RRP: $39.88$26.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJames Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1894. Famous for his humorous writings and illustrations, he was a staff member of The New Yorker for more than... -
Honor Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy by Jon D. Mikalson 9780807843482
$94.14In Honor Thy Gods Jon Mikalson uses the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides to explore popular religious beliefs and practices of Athenians in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. and examines how these playwrights portrayed, manipulated, and... -
Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century by Michael Caines 9780199642373
$54.75OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an... -
Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X) by Leofranc Holford-Strevens 9780199695010
RRP: $121.80$121.11This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall, published in 1968 but soon superseded by Marshall's own later discoveries as well as...