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Deleuze and Performance by Laura Cull
RRP: £31.00£28.69Was performance important to Deleuze? Is Deleuze important to performance; to its practical, as well as theoretical, research? What are the implications of Deleuze's philosophy of difference, process and becoming, for Performance Studies, a field in... -
Whose People?: Wales, Israel, Palestine by Jasmine Donahaye 9780708324837
RRP: £12.99£9.70Wales has a long history of interest in Palestine and Israel, and a close interest in Jews and Zionism. This monograph, the first to explore the subject, asks searching questions about the relationship that Wales has with the Israel-Palestine situation... -
Morbius: Blood Ties by Brendan Deneed 9781789094855
RRP: £16.99£8.38Morbius the Living Vampire seeks to end his curse of a thirst for blood, and to stop a demonic cult from unleashing hell on Earth. Seeking to cure his rare blood disorder, Dr. Michael Morbius instead cursed himself with an insatiable lust for human... -
Scholars and Rebels: In Nineteenth-Century Ireland Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631214465
RRP: £31.95£28.29Scholars and Rebels must be essential reading for all those concerned to understand not just the complexities of nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the twentieth... -
Falconry in Literature by Dave Horobin 9780888395474
RRP: £51.99£42.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888395474Author Dave HorobinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd... -
Ideology by David Hawkes 9780415290128
RRP: £25.99£22.63This new revised edition includes an updated bibliography, a new glossary and index and fresh suggestions for further reading, as well as a discussion of ideology after September 11.Ideology:*traces the history of the term and the debates which surround... -
Shakespeare, Theology, and the Unstaged God by Anthony D. Baker 9780367784836
RRP: £41.99£36.75While many scholars in Shakespeare and Religious Studies assume a secularist viewpoint in their interpretation of Shakespeare's works, there are others that allow for a theologically coherent reading. Located within the turn to religion in Shakespeare... -
The Shakespearean International Yearbook: 19: Special Section, Shakespeare and Refugees Tom Bishop 9781032157443
RRP: £39.99£35.06Publishing its nineteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time, across the whole... -
Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture by Mikhail Epstein 9781782388647
RRP: £27.95£22.98Recent decades have been decisive for Russia not only politically but culturally as well. The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this... -
Poetaster: Ben Jonson by Tom Cain 9780719016370
RRP: £14.99£13.64Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus' wise rule with an English polity dominated (like the stage) by malice, intrigue and envy. This text... -
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera by Sarah Kay
RRP: £38.00£33.27Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouveres from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather... -
The Hatred of Literature by William Marx
RRP: £35.95£28.96For the last 2,500 years literature has been attacked, booed, and condemned, often for the wrong reasons and occasionally for very good ones. The Hatred of Literature examines the evolving idea of literature as seen through the eyes of its adversaries:... -
True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England by Ms Frances E. Dolan 9780812244854
RRP: £62.00£53.96In the motley ranks of seventeenth-century print, one often comes upon the title True Relation. Purportedly true relations describe monsters, miracles, disasters, crimes, trials, and apparitions. They also convey discoveries achieved through exploration... -
Dissecting Hannibal Lecter: Essays on the Novels of Thomas Harris by Benjamin Szumskyj 9780786432752
RRP: £21.99£18.55This comprehensive study of author, Thomas Harris' popular works focuses particularly on Harris' internationally known antihero Hannibal ""The Cannibal"" Lecter in the classic novels ""Red Dragon"", ""Silence of the Lambs"", and ""Hannibal"". In 12... -
Mixed Bag: Jokes, Riddles, Puzzles & Memorabilia by Raymond Smullyan Smullyan
£16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986144578Author Raymond Smullyan SmullyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Sagging ShortsPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 234g -
Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture by Beverly Lyon Clark
RRP: £30.00£26.95Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet bring together twenty-two scholars to look closely at the complexities of children's culture. Girls, Boys, Books, Toys asks questions about how the gender symbolism of children's culture is constructed and... -
The Disappearance of God: FIVE NINETEENTH-CENTURY WRITERS by J. Hillis Miller 9780252069109
RRP: £31.00£27.36A landmark work of literary criticism by one of the foremost interpreters of nineteenth-century England, The Disappearance of God confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert... -
Atheism by Alexandre Kojeve 9780231180009
RRP: £28.00£21.80One of the twentieth century's most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojeve was a Russian emigre to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. Although Kojeve wrote a great deal, he... -
Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus by Stephen Halliwell 9780198707011
RRP: £55.00£54.32As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell's volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining... -
Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale by Judith T. Zeitlin 9780804729680
RRP: £24.99£21.67This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.Reviews"It... -
The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780195388718
RRP: £15.99£13.82Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go... -
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloon by Kurt Vonnegut
£16.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385333818Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation by Susan Oliver
RRP: £75.00£67.74The work of Walter Scott, one of the most globally influential authors of the nineteenth century, provides us with a unique narrative of the changing ecologies of Scotland over several centuries and writes this narrative into the history of environmental... -
A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature by Michael K. Bourdaghs
RRP: £20.99£18.37Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist,... -
Slavery and the Literary Imagination by Deborah E. McDowell
£26.93Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews-- to Sheley Anne William's "Dessa Rose" (1984). Among... -
The Oral and the Written in Early Islam by Gregor Schoeler 9780415597074
RRP: £53.99£46.87Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and... -
Passing and the Fictions of Identity by Elaine K. Ginsberg
RRP: £22.99£20.01Passing refers to the process whereby a person of one race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation adopts the guise of another. Historically, this has often involved black slaves passing as white in order to gain their freedom. More generally, it has... -
King Lear: Parallel Text Edition Rene Weis (University College London, London, UK University College London, England, UK) 9781408204122
RRP: £47.99£45.98This reissed edition of Longman Annotated Texts King Lear includes comprehensive notes, annotations and an introduction, all designed to be of use to undergraduates and interested readers.King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied tragedies... -
Panopticon by Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9780857425034
RRP: £16.99£14.61Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of daring short essays on topical themes politics, economics, religion, society not from Jeremy Bentham's famous prison but from a mid-1930s Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Germany by Karl... -
Late Victorian into Modern by Laura Marcus
RRP: £60.00£51.47The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion;... -
Goethe, Volume 3: Essays on Art and Literature by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691036571
RRP: £35.00£27.74Translated by Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von Nardroff The reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist, and man of science. This volume contains such... -
Being Matt Murdock: One Fan's Journey Into the Science of Daredevil by Christine Hanefalk 9789198796506
RRP: £15.99£12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789198796506Author Christine HanefalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint PublishdrivePublisher PublishdriveWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England by David Aers 9780268020224
RRP: £27.99£19.28Concentrating on the sacrament of the altar, poverty, and conflicting versions of sanctity, Sanctifying Signs presents a critical study of Christian literature, theology, and culture in late medieval England. In this notable book, David Aers considers... -
Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton by Prof. Leah Marcus
RRP: £37.99£33.78Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar. Leah Marcus argues... -
Writing Women's Literary History Margaret J. M. Ezell (Texas A&M University) 9780801855085
RRP: £23.00£22.13By championing the recovery of "lost" women writers and insisting on reevaluating the past, women's studies and feminist theory have effected dramatic changes in the ways English literary history is written and taught. In Writing Women's Literary... -
Wealth and the Material World in the Old English Alfredian Corpus by Dr Amy Faulkner
RRP: £80.00£76.61A new, materialistic reading of the Alfredian corpus, drawing on diverse approaches from thing theory to Augustinian principles of use and enjoyment to uncover how these works explore the material world. The Old English prose translations... -
Living in Technical Legality: Science Fiction and Law as Technology by Kieran Tranter 9781474474795
RRP: £23.99£22.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474795Author Kieran TranterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017 by Hayden White 9781501773594
RRP: £23.99£20.84The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures. As in the... -
Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader Sherryl Vint 9781138814998
RRP: £49.99£43.90Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader is an essential resource for literature students studying science fiction, science and popular culture, and contemporary theory. This book combines key theories that have become touchstones for work in the... -
The Sacred Fount by Henry James
£99.13The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. One of James's strangest works, The Sacred Fount, explores...