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Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872-1927 by Daniel Albright 9781421416434
RRP: $108.15$95.47How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great... -
Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives by Amy Garnai
RRP: $65.10$57.02A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and... -
Ghosts: Death'S Double And The Phenomena Of Theatre by Alice Rayner
RRP: $46.18$40.93Making spirits visible has been a part of the theatrical experience since at least the sixteenth century. Instead of illusions, however, ghostly doubles in theatre are materially real and pervasive. In Ghosts, Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial... -
Charlotte Bronte by Dr. Patsy Stoneman 9780746308561
RRP: $39.25$27.99Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is one of the most famous novels in the world; its heroine's spirited response to hardship and temptation has engaged an eager readership since its publication in 1847. Jane Eyre, however, was not Charlotte Bronte's only... -
Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation by The Multigraph Collective
RRP: $81.90$69.70A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Print delivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical... -
100 Greatest Literary Detectives by Eric Sandberg 9781442278226
RRP: $90.30$80.18Crime fiction is one of the most popular literary genres and has been for more than a century. At the heart of almost all forms of mysteries-from the Golden Age puzzler to the contemporary police procedural, from American hardboiled fiction to the... -
Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound by Rebecca Beasley 9780415285414
RRP: $41.98$37.15Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects, and changing the very notion of what it meant to be a poet. This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of the most... -
Candide by Voltaire 9780393932522
$23.98The novella has never been out of print and has been translated into every conceivable language. The text of this Norton Critical Edition remains that of Robert M. Adams's superlative translation, accompanied by explanatory annotations. This edition also... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gerald Martin
RRP: $50.38$31.98The Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1927), wrote two of the great novels of the twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As novelist, short story writer and journalist, Garcia Marquez has... -
Ethics, Security, and the War Machine by Ned Dobos 9780192887849
RRP: $50.38$45.49If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization-or... -
Ovid's Poetry of Exile Ovid 9780801839160
RRP: $57.75$56.97"Someone clever, passionate, and heartbroken comes very near us, and I think it is Ovid. I found it impossible to stop reading these poems. And poems they are."--Richard Wilbur.Someone clever, passionate, and heartbroken comes very near us, and I think... -
Novel Sensations: Modernist Fiction and the Problem of Qualia by Jon Day
RRP: $44.08$40.43Concentrating on the work of four major modernist authors Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett this book examines the close links between modernist literature and the philosophy of mind. By historicising the qualia debate and... -
Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? by Blakey Vermeule
$61.68Blakey 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 Art Of Perspective: Who Tells the Story by Christopher Castellani 9781555977269
RRP: $23.08$17.45A writer may have a story to tell, a sense of plot, and strong characters, but for all of these to come together some key questions must be answered. What form should the narrator take? An omniscient, invisible force, or one - or more - of the... -
Europe (in Theory) by Roberto M. Dainotto
RRP: $46.18$42.38Europe (in Theory) is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that continue to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insights from subaltern and postcolonial studies, Roberto M... -
Human Conflict in Shakespeare by S. C. Boorman 9780367684174
RRP: $67.18$59.49Conflict is at the heart of much of Shakespeare's drama. Frequently there is an overt setting of violence, as in Macbeth, but, more significantly there is often 'interior' conflict. Many of Shakespeare's most striking and important characters - Hamlet... -
Shakespearean Futures: Casting the Bodies of Tomorrow on Shakespeare's Stages Today by Amy Cook
RRP: $35.70$30.91Casting is the process by which directors assign parts to actors, creating the idea of the character for the audience. Casting is how we rehearse change, as we come to see an expanded repertoire of the kinds of bodies that are selected to play the lead,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing by Tim Youngs
RRP: $48.28$41.08Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant... -
The Literary Theory Handbook by Gregory Castle
RRP: $54.50$48.30The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories. A new edition of this... -
Why Homer Matters: A History by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $52.50$30.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250074942Author Adam NicolsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
Plants in Children's and Young Adult Literature Melanie Duckworth (Ostfold University College) 9781032122458
RRP: $83.98$74.19From the forests of the tales of the Brothers Grimm to Enid Blyton's The Faraway Tree, from the flowers of Cicely May Barker's fairies to the treehouse in Andy Griffith and Terry Denton's popular 13-Storey Treehouse series, trees and other plants have... -
Space and Place in Children s Literature, 1789 to the Present by Maria Sachiko Cecire
RRP: $83.98$73.63Focusing on questions of space and locale in children's literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The... -
The Resistance to Poetry by James Longenbach
RRP: $48.30$46.47Poetry, 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... -
Heimat - A German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990 by Elizabeth Boa 9780198159230
$124.55The discourse of Heimat, meaning homeland or roots, has been a medium of debate on German identity between region and nation for at least a century. Four phases parallel Germany's discontinuous history: Heimat literature as a response to modernization... -
Critical Essays from the Spectator by Joseph Addison: With Four Essays by Richard Steele by Donald F. Bond 9780198710509
$235.79A scholarly edition of essays by Joseph Addison. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198710509Author Donald F. BondFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain by Carissa M. Harris
RRP: $77.70$68.08In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers... -
Reading Old Books: Writing with Traditions by Peter Mack
RRP: $73.50$58.70A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging... -
A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance Barbara Hodgdon (Drake University) 9781405188210
RRP: $90.20$80.37A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides a state-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field of Shakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. Considers performance in a range of media,... -
What Was Tragedy?: Theory and the Early Modern Canon by Blair Hoxby 9780198810599
$97.99Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain that in a true tragedy, fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste... -
Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World by Sarah Park Dahlen 9781496840561
$60.35Contributions by Christina M. Chica, Kathryn Coto, Sarah Park Dahlen, Preethi Gorecki, Tolonda Henderson, Marcia Hernandez, Jackie C. Horne, Susan E. Howard, Peter C. Kunze, Florence Maatita, Sridevi Rao, Kallie Schell, Jennifer Patrice Sims, Paul... -
Latin American Women's Writing: Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis by Anny Brooksbank Jones 9780198715139
$87.65The twelve essays in this volume on Latin American women's writing are written from an explicitly theoretical and academic feminist perspective. The contributors - leading female academics working in Latin America, the US, and Europe - rethink notions of... -
The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 Dorothy J. Hale (University of California, Berkeley) 9781405107747
RRP: $83.90$75.12The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century. Traces the rise of novel theory and the extension of its influence into other disciplines,... -
Writing the Image After Roland Barthes by Jean-Michel Rabate
$50.53In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In Writing the Image After Roland Barthes,... -
Geomythology: How Common Stories Reflect Earth Events Timothy J. Burbery 9780367711061
RRP: $104.98$91.35Gold-guarding griffins, Cyclopes, killer lakes, man-eating birds, and "fire devils" from the sky-such wonders have long been dismissed as fictional. Now, thanks to the richly interdisciplinary field of geomythology, researchers are taking a second look... -
Reading Romantic Poetry Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford, UK) 9781118773000
RRP: $69.20$61.66Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis. Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by... -
Drivetime: Literary Excursions in Automotive Consciousness by Lynne Pearce
RRP: $50.38$45.89What sorts of things do we think about when we're driving or being driven in a car? Drivetime seeks to answer this question by drawing upon a rich archive of British and American texts from 'the motoring century' (1900-2000), paying particular... -
Reading Beyond the Book: The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture Danielle Fuller 9781138929937
RRP: $83.98$74.19Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the... -
Horace Walpole: The Critical Heritage Peter Sabor 9780415867856
RRP: $92.38$80.72The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a wroiter's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.Book... -
Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics by Reuven Tsur
RRP: $34.13$33.64This 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... -
The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Hubble 9781350005419
$60.59How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing...