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Golf Ball by Harry Brown
RRP: €11.89€9.13Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Harry Brown explores the composition, history, kinetic life, and the long deterioration of golf balls, which as it turns out may outlive their... -
The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing by Carl Thompson 9780367365295
RRP: €54.73€48.94As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals,... -
Aeschylus: Libation Bearers Aeschylus 9781786940995
RRP: €32.67€29.63The Libation Bearers (Choephori) of Aeschylus is the central tragedy of his Oresteia, the only Greek trilogy that survives in full and one of the acknowledged masterpieces of Greek literature. The play enacts and explores in profound detail the... -
The Resistance to Poetry by James Longenbach
RRP: €27.37€26.33Poetry, argues James Longenbach, is its own best enemy. Examining a wide array of poets, from Callimachus to Louise Gluck, he explains that the resistance to poetry is, quite specifically, the wonder of poetry. Poems do convey knowledge, he suggests, but... -
Notes on Evil by Steven Warwick 9783981910872
€19.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981910872Author Steven WarwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Floating Opera PressPublisher Floating Opera Press -
Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 by Patrick Lonergan 9781474262651
RRP: €29.74€26.10Drawing on major new archival discoveries and recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an innovative account of Irish drama and theatre, spanning the past seventy years. Rather than offering a linear narrative, the volume traces key themes to... -
A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume I: The Tragedies by Richard Dutton 9781405136051
RRP: €48.73€43.19This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the... -
Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England: Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400-1500 by Daniel Wakelin
RRP: €89.25€81.09Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts in late medieval English literature. In doing so he... -
Euripides and the Gods by Mary Lefkowitz 9780199752058
€85.87Many modern readers believe that, in his dramas, Euripides was questioning the nature and sometimes even the existence of the gods. In Euripides and the Gods, eminent classicist Mary K. Lefkowitz shows that the tragedian is not undermining ancient... -
Dostoevsky's The Idiot and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative: Reading, Narrating, Scripting by Sarah Young 9781843311157
RRP: €20.22€19.62In considering Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot', a novel less easily defined in terms of plot and ideas than his other major fictional works, Sarah Young addresses problems in the novel unresolved by previous interpretations, and in doing so fills a significant... -
Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Patrick J. Murphy 9780271077710
RRP: €90.38€81.00Montague 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... -
Humanism by Tony Davies 9780415420655
RRP: €34.50€29.86Definitions of humanism have evolved throughout the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of purposes - literary, cultural and political - and reactions against humanism have contributed to movements such as postmodernism and anti-humanism... -
The Sackett Companion by Louis L'Amour 9780553371024
RRP: €17.84€13.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553371024Author Louis L'AmourFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Transgressives Tales: Queering the Grimms by Kay Turner 9780814334812
RRP: €43.97€39.48The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmarchen (Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the... -
Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: €83.30€71.77Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.-a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman... -
The Victorian Novel by Louis James 9780631226284
RRP: €39.21€34.68This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic... -
An Introduction to Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire by Abbie Jukes 9781910996690
RRP: €11.89€11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996690Author Abbie JukesFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
The Alchemist in Literature: From Dante to the Present by Theodore Ziolkowski 9780198834168
€36.57Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in the Eighth Circle of Dante's... -
Shakespeare's Shrine: The Bard's Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon by Julia Thomas
RRP: €28.55€24.80Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon-and there are some 700,000 a year who do so-might be forgiven for taking the authenticity of the building for granted. The house, as the official... -
Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? by Blakey Vermeule
€34.95Blakey Vermeule wonders how readers become involved in the lives of fictional characters, people they know do not exist. Vermeule examines the ways in which readers' experiences of literature are affected by the emotional attachments they form to... -
The Testament of Love by Thomas Usk
RRP: €41.65€34.77Shoaf here presents a hitherto neglected Middle English text for both undergraduate and graduate classrooms: Thomas Usk's The Testament of Love. Left unpublished since the nineteenth century, Usk's modern edition includes glosses, notes, and a... -
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw by Samuel R. Delany
RRP: €24.40€22.30Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its demonstration that science fiction was a special language, rather than just gadgets and green-skinned aliens, began... -
A Study Guide for Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375396332
RRP: €11.84€10.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375396332Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)... -
Othello by William Shakespeare 9780812969153
RRP: €11.90€8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969153Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 200g -
Aristotle's Poetics by Aristotle 9780809005277
RRP: €13.08€9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809005277Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & Wang -
Paradise Lost: A Primer by Michael Cavanagh
RRP: €35.64€31.84A record of a teacher's lifelong love affair with the beauty, wit, and pro fundity of Paradise Lost, celebrating John Milton's un-doctrinal, complex, and therefore deeply satisfying perception of the human condition. After surveying Milton's recurrent... -
Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature Michael Hattaway (University of Sheffield) 9781405100458
RRP: €39.21€34.68This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing. An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers. Considers... -
The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai by Chana Kronfeld
RRP: €73.78€64.21Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was the foremost Israeli poet of the twentieth century and an internationally influential literary figure whose poetry has been translated into some 40 languages. Hitherto, no comprehensive literary study of Amichai's poetry... -
Saturday's Silence: R. S. Thomas and Paschal Reading by Richard McLauchlan 9781783169207
RRP: €47.60€39.01R. S. Thomas is recognised globally as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. Such detailed attention as has been paid to the religious dimensions of his work has, however, largely limited itself to such matters as his obsession with the... -
Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis by Sara Marcus
RRP: €40.40€32.62"Marcus shows the ways in which Black activists and writers, in particular, have continued to express their political desires. In doing so, she draws our attention to the centrality of disappointment in American political life."-Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,... -
Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays by Robert Duncan 9780520324855
RRP: €35.70€28.91A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including... -
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture by Amanda Anderson
RRP: €19.03€16.95Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction-the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman... -
50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland 9781529432183
RRP: €11.89€8.09In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works.From postmodernism to postcolonialism,... -
A Green and Pagan Land: Myth, Magic and Landscape in British Film and Television by David Huckvale 9781476670508
RRP: €26.17€22.07British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley,... -
Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean by Shona N. Jackson
RRP: €26.17€22.84During the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as... -
Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance by Sally Barnden
RRP: €27.36€24.59Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance examines the place of photography in the reception of the Shakespeare canon since the invention of the camera, looking at how photographic images have shaped perceptions of historicity, performance,... -
Monstrosities: Bodies And British Romanticism by Paul Youngquist 9780816639809
RRP: €24.98€21.86A surprising evaluation of the role of the physical body in the construction of British identityEighteenth-century medicine used the word "monstrosities" to describe physically deformed bodies-those irreducible to the "proper body" in their singular,... -
Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood by Joseph Valente
RRP: €38.08€33.57Dracula's Crypt unearths the Irish roots of Bram Stoker's gothic masterpiece, offering a fresh interpretation of the author's relationship to his novel and to the politics of blood that consumes its characters. An ingenious reappraisal of a classic... -
Gerard Hopkins in Wales by Norman White 9781854112170
€41.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854112170Author Norman WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 380g -
Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism by Ruben Espinosa
RRP: €23.79€21.05Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism examines Shakespeare in relation to ongoing conversations that interrogate the vulnerability of Black and brown people amid oppressive structures that aim to devalue their worth. By focusing on the way these...