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From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 by Christopher Cannon
RRP: £20.99£17.94The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first... -
A Life in Urdu: Personal Encounters and Selected Essays on Urdu Literature by Ralph Russell by Sir Ralph Russell
RRP: £38.99£35.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391050948Author Sir Ralph RussellFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Oxford University Press IndiaPublisher Oxford University Press India -
The Substance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China, 1550-1775 by Sophie Volpp
RRP: £30.00£27.39Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being... -
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with <i>The Lady Falkland: Her Life</i>, by One of Her Daughters by Elizabeth Cary
RRP: £27.00£21.06The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. Mariam is a distinctive... -
Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780192864635
RRP: £91.00£82.48Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends... -
Reading Television by John Fiske 9780415323536
RRP: £21.99£19.34Reading Television was the first book to push the boundaries of television studies beyond the insights offered by cultural studies and textual analysis, creating a vibrant new field of study. Using the tools and techniques in this book, it is possible... -
The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel by Sarah Wasserman
RRP: £20.99£18.37A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature-and its relevance to the twenty-first century "Nothing ever really disappears from the internet" has become a common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was filled with... -
The Trouble with Literature by Victoria Kahn 9780198808749
RRP: £26.49£22.39This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But instead of arguing that the Reformation fostered... -
An Analysis of Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences Tim Smith-Laing 9781912453078
RRP: £6.50£6.11Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century. Delivered at a conference on structuralism at Johns Hopkins, the lecture took aim at the critical and philosophical... -
Verse: An Introduction to Prosody by Charles O. Hartman 9780470656013
RRP: £30.95£27.45Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school. Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced... -
Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research by Alex Cordoba-Aguilar 9780192898623
RRP: £120.00£108.33This research level text documents the latest advances in odonate biology and relates these to a broader ecological and evolutionary research agenda. Despite being one of the smallest insect orders, dragonflies offer a number of advantages for both... -
Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth by Marjorie Burns
RRP: £35.00£29.05J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) is increasingly recognized as the most influential writer of the twentieth century. Sales of his books remain exceptionally high, and Middle-earth fan clubs flourish around the world. The massive success of the film versions... -
Omon Ra by Viktor Pelevin 9781899414000
RRP: £8.99£8.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899414000Author Viktor PelevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Harbord PublishingPublisher Harbord Publishing Ltd -
Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf: Flights of Translation by Alexander Bubb
RRP: £78.00£71.28The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated. The popularity of the Arabian Nights and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is well documented. Yet this was also an era in which freethinkers consulted the... -
Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature by Zoe Roth
£104.45Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form Formal Matters re-examines the postmodernist insistence that the body escapes signification by turning to an unexpected source: early and mid-century formalisms... -
Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires by Leslie Hill 9780415050487
RRP: £37.99£33.38Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The Lover Leslie Hill's... -
Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission by Ellen Greene
RRP: £27.00£21.06Re-Reading Sappho reflects the recent fascination with Sappho's "afterlife." The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry. As the contributors explore the ways that each... -
Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts and Contexts by Elizabeth A. Flynn
RRP: £28.00£24.54"An unprecedented encounter between feminist criticism, reading-research and reader-response criticism...I found 'Gender and Reading' a valuable book to read as a feminist critic. Valuable because it asserts our rights, as women, to read; to read as... -
The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of Human Rights by Peter De Bolla
RRP: £35.00£30.74The Architecture of Concepts proposes a radically new way of understanding the history of ideas. Taking as its example human rights, it develops a distinctive kind of conceptual analysis that enables us to see with precision how the concept of human... -
Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England by Professor William N. West
RRP: £27.00£26.47A new account of playgoing in Elizabethan England, in which audiences participated as much as performers. What if going to a play in Elizabethan England was more like attending a football match than a Broadway show-or playing in one? In Common... -
The Siege of Thebes by John Lydgate
RRP: £17.50£14.50John Lydgate's The Siege of Thebes, written c. 1421-22, is the only Middle English poetic text that recounts the fratricidal struggle between Oedipus's sons Eteocles and Polynices as they contend for the lordship of Thebes. The text reflects the problem... -
Speech Acts in Literature by J. Hillis Miller 9780804742160
RRP: £21.99£19.19This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, repeatedly expels... -
Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939 by W. J. McCormack 9780198128069
£47.37Ireland's footing within the United Kingdom in the period between Edmund Burke's last years and the generation of Yeats and Joyce, was unique and anomalous: in social terms this was evident in the prestige of the Protestant Ascendancy; and in literary... -
Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist by Denis Sampson 9780199641772
RRP: £21.99£21.80John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the accomplishment of his craft ensured that he also became known as a writer's writer. He set his novels... -
The Mourning Voice: An Essay on Greek Tragedy by Nicole Loraux
RRP: £61.00£52.70In The Mourning Voice, Nicole Loraux presents a radical challenge to what has become the dominant view of tragedy in recent years: that tragedy is primarily a civic phenomenon, infused with Athenian political ideology, which envisions its spectators... -
Shame and Modern Writing by Barry Sheils
RRP: £41.99£36.75Shame and Modern Writing seeks to uncover the presence of shame in and across a vast array of modern writing modalities. This interdisciplinary volume includes essays from distinguished and emergent scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and... -
From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom by Professor Fiona McHardy 9780814252505
£31.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252505Author Professor Fiona McHardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 2: 1350-1547: Reform and Cultural Revolution by James Simpson 9780198182610
RRP: £45.99£41.58Heralding a new era in literary studies, the Oxford English Literary History breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon by focusing on the contexts in which the authors wrote and how their work was shaped by the times in which they lived. ... -
Moby Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
RRP: £55.00£42.75This trade edition of "Moby-Dick" is a reduced version of the Arion Press "Moby-Dick", which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one... -
Troilus and Criseyde: "The Book of Troilus" by Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780582031975
£101.65This edition presents all of the surviving manuscripts, together with textual apparatus and commentary. The poem is also presented in parallel with its principal source, Boccaccio's "Filostrato", enabling the reader to compare the two poems in charting... -
Theorising the Contemporary Zombie: Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures by Scott Hamilton
RRP: £30.00£25.27Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media. Over the past decade, they have been employed to explain mathematical equations, vortex phenomena in astrophysics, the need for improved... -
The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title-Pages by Alastair Fowler 9780198717669
RRP: £45.99£45.62Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History of the Book for the first time. The first part of The... -
The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading by Barbara Johnson
RRP: £24.00£21.18Barbara Johnson investigates the significant and illuminating ways in which both literature and criticism are "critically different" from what they purport to be. Her subtle and provocative studies of Balzac, Mallarme, Baudelaire, Apollinaire, Melville,... -
Gone Girls, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel by Nora Gilbert 9780198876540
£69.69In Gone Girls, 1684-1901, Nora Gilbert argues that the persistent trope of female characters running away from some iteration of 'home' played a far more influential role in the histories of both the rise of the novel and the rise of modern feminism than... -
Erotic Politics: The Dynamics of Desire in the Renaissance Theatre by Susan Zimmerman
RRP: £37.99£33.38Identifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors examine how the Renaissance stage functioned as a... -
An Introduction to Late Modern English by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
RRP: £19.99£16.42Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research has shown that this is far from true, and this book offers an introduction to a period that... -
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton 9781586489021
RRP: £13.99£9.04The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers... -
The Bible in Western Culture: The Student's Guide by Esther Hughes
RRP: £19.99£17.69The influence of the Bible in Western culture is immeasurable, but these days few of us know much about it. Presenting concise and accessible introductions to the Bible's most important characters, stories and themes, this text encourages better... -
Deep Waters by Belinda Black 9781398481497
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398481497Author Belinda BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes by Dick Riley 9780826411167
RRP: £32.99£32.68Providing an overview of all aspects of the life and times of the world-famous detective, Riley and McAllister offer interesting and entertaining information about the fictional sleuth. Along with the trivia and information, the authors insert historical...