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Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism by Rehana Ahmed 9781526116772
RRP: £19.99£14.52The Rushdie affair, September 11 2001 and 7/7 pushed British Muslims into the forefront of increasingly fraught debate about multiculturalism. Stereotyping images have proliferated, reducing a heterogeneous minority group to a series of media soundbites... -
'Tis Pity She's a Whore: A Critical Guide by Lisa Hopkins
£32.28A comprehensive introduction to John Ford's ??i??Tis Pity She's a Whore??i?? - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. John Ford's tragedy ??i??Tis Pity She's A... -
Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature by Kenneth B. Kidd
RRP: £21.99£19.19Children's literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist's couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged... -
'Reading' Greek Death: To the End of the Classical Period by Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood 9780198150695
£118.22The author sheds new light on aspects of the beliefs, attitudes, and rituals surrounding death in ancient Greece from the Minoan and Mycenean period to the end of the classical age. She draws on different types of evidence - from literary texts to burial... -
Fiction and Narrative by Derek Matravers
RRP: £31.99£29.35For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination. In particular, fiction has been defined in terms of the imagination: what it is for something to be fictional is... -
Sherlock Holmes Handbook: Second Edition by Christopher Redmond 9781554884469
RRP: £19.00£14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554884469Author Christopher RedmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)... -
More Words about Pictures: Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People by Perry Nodelman 9780367346331
RRP: £43.99£38.44This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of visual/verbal texts such as comics, graphic novels, and book apps, with a particular focus on texts produced for and about young people. When Perry... -
Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel by Patricia Jagentowicz Mills
RRP: £34.95£31.59A pivotal figure in critical theory and the modern/postmodern debates, G. W. F. Hegel is the subject of differing feminist critiques. Going beyond and behind Simone de Beauvoir's creative appropriation of Hegel in The Second Sex, the essays gathered... -
Travel Writing, Form, and Empire: The Poetics and Politics of Mobility by Julia Kuehn
RRP: £46.99£40.97This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in... -
Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters by Jan Baetens 9781978808478
RRP: £28.99£27.31A collaboration between Belgian artist Francois Schuiten and French writer Benoit Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world,... -
The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and Me by Tom Santopietro
RRP: £14.99£12.21Fifty years and one billion dollars in gross box-office receipts after the initial release of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's masterful trilogy continues to fascinate viewers old and new. The Godfather Effect skillfully analyzes the reasons behind... -
Street Songs: Writers and urban songs and cries, 1800-1925 by Daniel Karlin
RRP: £40.49£32.28This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth... -
At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem by Franz Fuhmann
RRP: £18.99£16.18At the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking... -
Reading James Joyce: An Introduction A. Nicholas Fargnoli 9781032121420
RRP: £33.99£30.00Reading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce's writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce's works and the background from which... -
Scream by Michael J. Seidlinger 9781501386749
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When you are born, the first thing you do is scream. Be it a response to fear, anger, sadness, or happiness, the scream is a declaration of... -
English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World: An Inkle and Yarico Reader by Frank Felsenstein
£27.90On March 13, 1711, an article appeared in The Spectator about Thomas Inkle, a young and aspiring English trader cast ashore in the Americas, who is saved from violent death by Yarico, a beautiful Indian maiden. When he and Yarico become lovers, Inkle... -
Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 4: Dialogues by Paul Valery
RRP: £35.00£27.74Valery's dialogues are considered his most important works of imagination in prose. The volume brings together for the first time all the formal dialogues, including Eupalinos and six other pieces.Book InformationISBN 9780691018782Author Paul... -
The Antiquary: John Aubrey's Historical Scholarship by Kelsey Jackson Williams 9780198784296
£110.05John Aubrey (1626-1697), antiquary, natural philosopher, and virtuoso, is best-remembered today for his Brief Lives, biographies of his contemporaries filled with luminous detail which have been mined for anecdotes by generations of scholars. However,... -
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies by Elizabeth McHenry
RRP: £24.99£22.07Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history... -
Ian Mcewan by Dominic Head 9780719066573
RRP: £19.99£17.82In this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics, both as a stylist and as a serious thinker about the... -
Insomnia by John Kinsella
£11.42The Australian poet John Kinsella's vivid and urgent new collection addresses the crisis of being that currently afflicts us: Kinsella addresses a situation where the creations of the human imagination, the very means by which we extend our empathies... -
The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) by Stephen Owen
RRP: £20.95£17.28The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes... -
La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From History to Myth by Sandra Messinger Cypess
RRP: £19.99£17.54Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, and confidante of Hernan Cortes, Dona Marina-La... -
Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect by Hayden White
£26.93Originally published in 1998. In his earlier books such as Tropics of Discourse and The Content of the Form, Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of historical consciousness. In Figural Realism, White collects... -
The Blanchot Reader Michael Holland (St Hugh's College, Oxford) 9780631190844
RRP: £40.95£35.89Maurice Blanchot remains a writer whose work, though often cited, is little-known to the English-speaking reader. In The Blanchot Reader Michael Holland answers that urgent need and does so in a way that provides a coherent perspective on what by any... -
Cesare Pavese's Long Journey: A Critical-Analytical Study by Giose Rimanelli 9781599541334
RRP: £17.00£13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541334Author Giose RimanelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida by Stanley Cavell
RRP: £44.95£39.26In this most recent collection of his writing, Cavell provides extraordinary careful and sustained readings of Emerson's "Fate", Derrida's response to J. L. Austin in "Signature Event Context", and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations .About the... -
Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660 Marcus Nevitt 9781138278066
RRP: £49.99£43.50Offering an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of interdictions against female participation in the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, this book is primarily a study of female agency. Despite the... -
Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture by Michiko Suzuki
RRP: £20.99£18.37Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century. As a literary and cultural history of love... -
Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis by Alicia Mireles Professor Christoff
RRP: £25.00£19.59The first comprehensive look at how Victorian fiction and British psychoanalysis shaped each otherNovel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theory. Placing the writing of figures... -
Women's Writing in Middle English: An Annotated Anthology by Alexandra Barratt 9781408204146
£45.98Women's writing in any period remains of critical concern, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Alexandra Barratt's edition offers a wide range of texts from the period 1300-1500, including:Original texts written by women in the Middle Ages... -
Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos by Kim Addonizio 9780446679046
RRP: £16.99£15.24Previously considered the domain of bikers and a rite of passage in the services, tattoos have crawled out society's fringes and onto the ankles of starlets and the biceps of bankers. In this volume writers like Herman Melville, Elizabeth McCracken, Ray... -
Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England Roger Sales 9780415109215
RRP: £39.99£35.06In Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales looks at Jane Austen's entire oeuve, and views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England. Examining Austen's literary works; her letters - in the... -
Keywords for Environmental Studies by Joni Adamson 9780814760833
RRP: £22.99£20.01Introduces key terms, quantitative and qualitative research, debates, and histories for Environmental and Nature Studies Understandings of "nature" have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues... -
Poetry, Geography, Gender: Women Rewriting Contemporary Wales by Alice Entwistle 9780708326695
RRP: £12.99£9.70Poetry, Geography, Gender explores literary and geographical analysis, cultural criticism and gender politics in the work of such well-known literary figures as Gwyneth Lewis, Menna Elfyn, Christine Evans and Gillian Clarke, alongside newer names like... -
A Primer for Cadavers by Ed Atkins
£14.54One of the most widely celebrated artists of his generation, Ed Atkins makes videos, draws, and writes, developing a complex and deeply figured discourse around definition, wherein the impossibilities for sufficient representations of the physical,... -
Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion by Lynn Enterline
RRP: £23.99£20.84Shakespeare's Schoolroom places moments of considerable emotional power in Shakespeare's poetry-portraits of what his contemporaries called "the passions"-alongside the discursive and material practices of sixteenth-century English pedagogy. Humanist... -
Samba: Resistance in Motion by Barbara Browning
RRP: £15.99£14.24Barbara Browning combines a lyrical, personal narrative with incisive theoretical accounts of Brazilian dance cultures. While she brings ethnographic, historiographic, and musicological scholarship to bear on her subject, Browning writes as a dancer,... -
"Wuthering Heights": Character Studies by Melissa Fegan 9780826493460
£24.11"Wuthering Heights" is studied by first-year undergraduates worldwide but students often find it difficult to approach the novel's characters in a sophisticated way; typically dwelling on the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine, but without... -
Opening the Gates, Second Edition: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing by Margot Badran
RRP: £24.99£22.07Praise for the first edition:"An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces-essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches-by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive...