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F.R. Leavis by Richard Storer
RRP: £25.99£22.63'informative, succint, circumspect; an exacting introduction to Leavis as an incisive master critic. Ideal for today's students and general readers' - Chris Terry, Times Higher EducationF.R. Leavis is a landmark figure in twentieth-century literary... -
Educating the Soul: On the Esoteric in Shakespeare by Josie Alwyn 9781906999926
RRP: £14.99£12.55'The power of Shakespeare lies in his evidently conscious knowledge, skill and understanding of how to work with the alchemical potential in the human soul in the crafting of his plays. Each play is made as an exquisitely unique transformative device for... -
Crime Scene Britain and Ireland: A Reader's Guide by John Martin 9781910170052
RRP: £9.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170052Author John MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems by Bruce Clarke 9780823228515
RRP: £31.00£27.36From Dr. Moreau's Beast People to David Cronenberg's Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, Posthuman Metamorphosis examines modern and postmodern stories of... -
Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism by W. J. T. Mitchell 9780226532271
RRP: £15.00£14.87"Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge-issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in Critical Inquiry (8:4)-strikes some critics as... -
A Companion to Calderon de la Barca by Roy Norton
RRP: £110.00£95.42The first comprehensive study of Calderon in English Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists - many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish Golden Age. Spain's dominant and most prestigious... -
Prose Merlin by John Conlee
RRP: £35.00£29.22With its contextualizing introduction, notes, and gloss, this edition makes the Prose Merlin available to any student of Arthurian legend, no matter their level of proficiency in Middle English. Written in the latter half of the fifteenth century, the... -
The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Miserables by Mario Vargas Llosa 9780691131115
RRP: £20.00£15.89It was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century and Tolstoy called it "the greatest of all novels." Yet today Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. In The Temptation of the Impossible, one of the... -
Daphnis and Chloe: AND Anthia and Habrocomes - Xenophon of Ephesus by Longus
RRP: £24.95£24.54Two racy Greek romances.In Longus' ravishing Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century AD), one of the great works of world literature, an innocent boy and girl gradually discover their sexuality in an idealized pastoral environment. In Xenophon's... -
The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales by Manish Sharma 9781487509033
RRP: £66.00£53.96The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "insoluble." Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve... -
The Fifth Notebook of Dylan Thomas: Annotated Manuscript Edition by Dylan Thomas
£72.20Between May 1930 and August 1935, Dylan Thomas kept numerous notebooks of poems. They contain the drafts of almost all of the work that would form his first two reputation-making collections, 18 Poems (1934) and Twenty-five Poems (1936), and many of... -
The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction by Rosemary Marangoly George
RRP: £27.00£21.06The Politics of Home examines the changing representations of "home" in twentieth-century English literature. Examining imperial fiction, contemporary literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial narratives on belonging, exile and immigration, Rosemary... -
A Companion to Virginia Woolf by Jessica Berman 9781119115083
RRP: £34.95£31.23A Companion to Virginia Woolf is a thorough examination of her life, work, and multiple contexts in 33 essays written by leading scholars in the field. Contains insightful and provocative new scholarship and sketches out new directions for future... -
The Passion of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr
RRP: £27.95£22.55"How tame and manageable are the emotions of our bards, how placid and literary their allusions!" complained essayist T. W. Higginson in the Atlantic Monthly in 1870. "The American poet of passion is yet to come." He was, of course, unaware of the great... -
Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1 by Author S T Joshi 9781614980902
RRP: £25.00£21.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980902Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus Press -
The Lais of Marie de France by Marie 9780801020315
RRP: £18.99£18.48Marie de France, perhaps the finest medieval short fiction writer before Chaucer, composed her lais (short verse stories that resemble fairy tales) sometime between 1160 and 1199. The translators introduce and interpret each tale.Book InformationISBN... -
The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture by Bruce R. Smith
RRP: £45.00£43.61From Shakespeare's 'green-eyed monster' to the 'green thought in a green shade' in Andrew Marvell's "The Garden," the color green was curiously prominent and resonant in English culture during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among other things,... -
The Making of Samuel Beckett's Company/ Compagnie by Georgina Nugent-Folan 9781350214477
£32.30Company was first composed in English over two years, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this meticulously structured 59-paragraph masterpiece of his late prose. Its French companion, Compagnie, was... -
John Milton: Selected Longer Poems and Prose by John Milton
RRP: £36.99£32.53An edition of Milton's later work rk includes the text of six books of Paradise Lost, The History of Britain and the whole of Samson Agonistes. Through his introduction, commmentary and full annotations, Tony Davies sets the works in their political and... -
The Erotics of Restraint: Essays on Literary Form by Douglas Glover 9781771962919
RRP: £11.99£8.00Why do we read? What do we cherish in a book? What is the nature of a masterpiece? What do Alice Munro, Albert Camus, and the great Polish experimentalist Witold Gombrowicz have in common? In the tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Kundera, Douglas... -
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction by Mark Bould 9780415453790
RRP: £53.99£47.87The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six... -
Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman by Don W. King 9780802869364
RRP: £26.99£20.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Christianity Today Book Award (Culture) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780802869364Author Don W. KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint William B Eerdmans... -
Pennies on my eyes by Wilfred Owen 9781909747449
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909747449Author Wilfred OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Two Rivers PressPublisher Two Rivers Press -
Wit's Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics by Stephen Orgel
RRP: £31.00£27.36As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English intellectuals engaged in a concerted effort to remake the culture, language, manners-indeed, the whole... -
Locating Lynette Roberts: `Always Observant and Slightly Obscure' by Siriol McAvoy 9781786833822
RRP: £24.99£18.80Lynette Roberts is an extraordinary modernist poet and novelist, with her vivid imagery and restless experimentalism. Her writing displays a kind of double longing - for Wales, and for the Argentina she left behind. Her poetry constantly moves between... -
Why I Love Barthes Alain Robbe-Grillet 9780745650791
RRP: £9.99£8.95The literary friendship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes lasted 25 years. Everything attests to their deep and mutual intellectual esteem: their private correspondence, their published texts, their conversations - notably in the famous... -
The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film by Brigitte Peucker
RRP: £23.99£20.84Focusing on intermediality, The Material Image situates film within questions of representation familiar from the other arts: What is meant by figuring the real? How is the real suggested by visual metaphors, and what is its relation to illusion? How is... -
The Arabian Nights by Muhsin Mahdi 9780393928082
£21.61Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date-the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred... -
The Ageless Agatha Christie: Essays on the Mysteries and the Legacy by J. C. Bernthal 9781476663135
RRP: £21.99£17.97When Agatha Christie died in 1976, she was the bestselling mystery writer in history. This collection of new essays brings fresh perspectives to Christie scholarship with new readings and discussions of little-known aspects of her life, career and... -
Birdsong, Speech and Poetry: The Art of Composition in the Long Nineteenth Century by Francesca Mackenney
RRP: £75.00£67.74In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the... -
The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon 9780199230396
RRP: £49.99£49.49The centuries just after the Norman Conquest are the forgotten period of English literary history. In fact, the years 1066-1300 witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written forms, for this was a time when almost every writer was unaware... -
The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry by Eric Griffiths 9780198827016
£85.70The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry starts from a simple fact: our written language does not represent the way we speak. Intonation, accent, tempo, and pitch of utterance can be inferred from a written text but they are not clearly demonstrated there... -
Agrip Af Noregskonungasogum by M. J. Driscoll 9780903521758
RRP: £12.00£9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521758Author M J DriscollFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
Absentees - On Variously Missing Persons by Daniel Heller-roazen
RRP: £32.00£24.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130475Author Daniel Heller-roazenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 616gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 156mm *... -
Alain Chartier: The Quarrel of the Belle Dame Sans Mercy by Joan E. McRae
RRP: £45.99£40.53Belle dame sans merci (Beautiful lady with no mercy) (1424) is not readily available in moden English translation elsewhere, making this an essential addition to any library with a medieval literature or French literature collection.Book InformationISBN... -
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal by Christopher Stray 9780198777366
£105.00Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in... -
Gothic Shakespeares by John Drakakis
RRP: £37.99£33.38Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare's plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties... -
The Chastity Plot by Lisabeth During
RRP: £40.00£33.59In The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been loved,... -
Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties by Philip E. Wegner
RRP: £21.99£19.19Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fostered a... -
Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture by Dr Barry J. Faulk 9780821420959
£24.51The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell...