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Psy-Complex in Question - Critical Review in Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory Ian Parker 9781785357497
RRP: $41.98$35.64Psy-Complex in Question traces a series of key debates in and against the psy-complex through critical reviews of twenty-five key texts over the last twenty-five years, with an emphasis on recent critical psychological, psychoanalytic and critical social... -
Royal Genealogy in the Age of Shakespeare by Sara Trevisan
RRP: $115.50$109.39First full-length investigation of Elizabethan and Jacobean genealogy, showing how it could be manipulated to legitimise - and oppose. Shakespeare lived in an age when royal genealogy mattered. Queen Elizabeth succeeded her father despite accusations... -
Philip II, the Father of Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues by Professor Edward M. Anson 9781350103948
$65.06Philip II was not only the father of Alexander the Great, but in many respects was also the father of his son's incredible career. It was the father who unified Macedonia into the first European nation and who created the army with which his son... -
Giorgio Agamben by Alex Murray
RRP: $41.98$37.15Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to Guantanamo Bay and the 'war on terror'. Alex Murray... -
Zero's Neighbour: Sam Beckett by Helene Cixous 9780745644165
RRP: $27.28$25.43Zero's Neighbour is Helene Cixous's tribute to the minimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness in his writing like nobody else: Samuel Beckett. In this unabashedly personal odyssey through a sizeable range of his novels, plays and... -
Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee by Stella Adler 9780679746997
RRP: $39.88$29.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746997Author Stella AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Novelty: A History of the New by John Lardas Modern
RRP: $37.80$36.94If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new-new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come from... -
On The Conjugial Angel: 2020 by A S Byatt
RRP: $18.80$13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482191Author A S ByattFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg SocietyDimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm * 11mm -
Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles by Phyllis Rackin
RRP: $60.88$53.26Phyllis Rackin offers a fresh approach to Shakespeare's English history plays, rereading them in the context of a world where rapid cultural change transformed historical consciousness and gave the study of history a new urgency. Rackin situates... -
Plautus: Menaechmi by Dr V. Sophie Klein
RRP: $39.88$35.24This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus' most whimsical, provocative, and influential plays for the first time, and a useful first point of reference for scholars less familiar... -
Against the Event: The Everyday and Evolution of Modernist Narrative by Michael Sayeau 9780199681259
$248.96Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist Narrative investigates how a modernity famed for temporal acceleration - from Benjamin's 'shock' and 'distraction' to the postmodern loss of historical consciousness diagnosed by Jameson -... -
The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg by Ian Duncan
RRP: $52.48$48.45James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essays written by international experts on Hogg draw on recent breakthroughs in research to illuminate the... -
English SATs Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Study Guide: York Notes for KS2 by Kate Woodford
RRP: $13.65$10.98Suitable for ages 7 to 11 Provides support to consolidate your child's learning of grammar, punctuation and spelling Ideal for learning at home with your child Answers included in the back of the book Boost confidence and encourage results Easy-to-use,... -
Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places by Margaret Anne Doody 9780226157832
RRP: $65.10$64.24In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue... -
Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form by Doug Battersby 9780192863331
RRP: $191.10$173.21In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist writers developed new techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires that revolutionized the novel form--a revolution novelists and critics are still reckoning with... -
Raymond Williams: Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism John Higgins 9780415023450
RRP: $77.68$68.31Raymond Williams' prolific output is increasingly recognised as the most influential body of work on literary and cultural studies in the past fifty years. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the theoretical and historical context... -
Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge by Natalia Cecire 9781421433776
RRP: $64.05$61.93A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits.In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental... -
Ennius Noster: Lucretius and the Annales by Jason S Nethercut
RRP: $203.70$151.56Consensus holds that Lucretius admired the literary prestige of Homeric epos, the form that Ennius famously introduced to Latin literature. However, some hold that Lucretius disagreed with Ennius' quasi-Pythagorean claim to be Homer reborn, and so... -
Tragedy by Clifford Leech 9780415045995
RRP: $79.78$70.10Professor Leech considers the significance of the term 'Tragedy' as it has been used from classical times to the present day. He gives examples of tragic writing from a wide variety of dramatic literatures and relates theoretical writings on tragedy and... -
The Symbolism and Sources of Outlander: The Scottish Fairies, Folklore, Ballads, Magic and Meanings That Inspired the Series by Valerie Estelle Frankel 9780786499526
RRP: $31.48$26.36Outlander is much more than a television romance about a World War II nurse and a Jacobite soldier in a fetching kilt. The series--and the massive serial novel on which it is based--has been categorized as a period drama, adventure saga, military... -
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America by Walt Whitman 9781784108946
RRP: $31.48$22.62The young journalist and reformer Horace Traubel visited Whitman nearly every day at his home in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman liked to talk, especially about the big issues, spiritual, political - all he'd learned over seven decades of peace and war. To... -
Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration by James Phelan
RRP: $52.48$46.22In Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, Ernest Hemingway's "Now I Lay Me," Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Vladimir... -
German Stories/Deutsche Erzahlungen: A Bilingual En Face Anthology by Harry Steinhauer 9780520268159
RRP: $52.50$41.14The short stories in this bilingual anthology are from the works of some of the great masters of the German literary tradition - including Goethe, Glister, Mann, and Kafka - and offer a representative collection illustrating the development of German... -
Remains of Old Latin: v. 4: Archaic Inscriptions by E. H. Warmington
RRP: $52.40$49.90Physical graffiti.This edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law. The fourth volume contains inscriptions on various materials... -
The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet by Albert Gelpi 9780521424011
RRP: $77.68$59.12The Tenth Muse was enormously well-received when first published by Harvard University Press in 1975, and has been deemed a classic work. It was out of print for several years and then re- issued by Cambrirdge in this 1992 edition. In it Albert Gelpi... -
Augustus by Jonathan Edmondson
RRP: $65.10$61.45Augustus (63 BC -- AD 14), the first Roman emperor, brought peace and stability to Rome after decades of strife and uncertainty. He put in place a new institutional framework for the Roman Empire and inspired the ideology that sustained it for the next... -
Loving Justice, Living Shakespeare by Regina M. Schwartz 9780198795216
$70.43In thinking about Justice, we ignore Love to our peril. Loving Justice, Living Shakespeare asks why love is considered a 'soft' subject, fit for the arts and religion perhaps, but unfit for boardrooms, parliamentary and congressional debates, law schools... -
Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 by Terence Hawkes
RRP: $79.78$70.10Alternative Shakespeares, published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to the study of his work. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 investigates Shakespearean criticism over a... -
Shakespeare in Company by Bart van Es 9780199569311
RRP: $157.50$143.09This book is about two very different kinds of company. On the one hand it concerns Shakespeare's poet-playwright contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Jonson, and Fletcher. On the other, it examines the contribution of his fellow actors, including Burbage,... -
The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory by Andrew Cole
RRP: $46.18$40.93This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should-indeed must-reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his Legitimacy of the Modern Age describes the "modern age"... -
Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature by Douglas Gray 9780198706090
$237.24Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written texts which have survived from the medieval period and on the popular literature provided by... -
The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams 9780811209342
RRP: $16.78$15.18Spanning fifty-four years, this collection record the creative growth of one of the twentieth century's most influential and versatile writers.About the AuthorBesides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a poet,... -
These Circuses That Sweepthrough the Landscape Stories by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
$13.71Apologies 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 -
Europe: Volume 1: A Literary History, 1348-1418 by David Wallace
RRP: $95.53$94.23This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418,... -
Imagining Wales: A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English by Jeremy Hooker 9780708316368
RRP: $41.98$31.98This volume deals with the 20th-century literature that is either Anglo-Welsh or that which relates to Wales. The argument of how writers "ground" themselves in their imagined Wales as a means of anchoring themselves against groundlessness in modern... -
Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature by Chloe Wigston Smith
RRP: $157.50$143.09Offering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic... -
The Last Man: A Norton Critical Edition by Mary Shelley
$36.88This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1826 Henry Colburn edition of the novel, the only one approved by Mary Shelley.Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Chris Washington.A rich selection of contextual documents-twenty-six in all-pertaining to... -
George Eliot and The Woman Question by Gillian Beer
RRP: $73.48$69.47Apologies 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 -
The Girls of Fog by Namik Dokle 9781035810246
RRP: $20.98$15.37Apologies 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 -
Llen yr Uchelwyr: Hanes Beirniadol Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg 1300-1525 by Dafydd R. Johnston 9781783160525
RRP: $62.98$47.82Beirdd yr Uchelwyr' in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are considered to be the pinnacle of the bardic tradition in Wales in the Middle Ages. This book gives a comprehensive look at the period's literature in all its aspects. Attention is given to...