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Is Time out of Joint?: On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime by Aleida Assmann
RRP: £34.00£29.89Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future-and their relationship to the present-been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or... -
The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable by Joseph Valente
RRP: £21.99£19.19Even though the Irish child sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church have appeared steadily in the media, many children remain in peril. In The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature, Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus examine modern cultural... -
Shakespeare's Storytelling: An Introduction to Genre, Character, and Technique Nate Eastman 9783030629922
RRP: £24.99£22.37Shakespeare's Storytelling: An Introduction to Genre, Character, and Technique is a textbook focused on specific storytelling techniques and genres that Shakespeare invented or refined. Drawing on examples from popular novels, plays, and films (such as... -
Political Sign by Tobias Carroll
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In an election year, political signs can be impossible to avoid. They're in front yards, on bumper stickers, and in some places you might never... -
The Sexual World of the Arabian Nights by David Ghanim
RRP: £19.99£17.13From the stories of wives and their lovers to those of kings and their conquests, to the overarching story of Shahrazad and Shahryar, the tales of the Arabian Nights have offered countless audiences entertainment and enjoyment as well as serving as... -
Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman by Arnold Weinstein 9780691148243
RRP: £32.00£25.16Northern Arts is a magnificent and provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and... -
Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism by Kathryn Conrad 9780815635987
£37.25Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that "the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula," the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings... -
Shakespeare`s Reformation – Christian Humanism and the Death of God by Nalin Ranasinghe 9781587318177
RRP: £28.00£23.27This is a posthumously published collection of Nalin Ranasinghe's sharp analyses of Shakespeare's five heavy dramas: Hamlet, King John, Julius Caesar, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra. True to form, Ranasinghe serves up philosophical and literary... -
Hamlet: Character Studies by Michael Davies 9780826495921
RRP: £21.99£21.89Designed for first year students, this innovative guide builds on the usual knowledge base of students beginning literary study in "HE" by focusing on the familiar characters but introducing more sophisticated analysis.Arguably Shakespeare's most famous... -
The Great Accelerator Paul Virilio (The European Graduate School) 9780745653891
RRP: £14.99£13.58On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light... -
Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity -- Critical Writing 1984-1999 by Fred Wah 9781896300078
RRP: £19.99£12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300078Author Fred WahFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 398g -
Sexual Dissidence by Jonathan Dollimore
£30.56Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this... -
The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval England: The Matter of France in Middle English and Anglo-Norman Literature Phillipa Hardman 9781843846017
RRP: £29.99£29.64The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Roland to Caxton. The Matter of France, the legendary history of Charlemagne, had a central but now largely... -
Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation by Matthew P. Loar
RRP: £30.99£25.45Bringing together philologists, historians, and archaeologists, Rome, Empire of Plunder bridges disciplinary divides in pursuit of an interdisciplinary understanding of Roman cultural appropriation - approached not as a set of distinct practices but as a... -
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature by John Whittier Treat
RRP: £31.00£30.19The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten works,... -
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction by Christine Berberich
£36.59Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of commercial fiction from the 19th century to today, The... -
A Preface to Oscar Wilde by Anne Varty 9780582234826
RRP: £39.99£38.94A Preface to Oscar Wilde provides a detailed study of the cultural, personal and political influences that shaped Wilde's writing. The study concentrates primarily on his fiction, critical dialogues and plays that were published between 1890 and 1895,... -
Prophets by Kwame Dawes 9781845234041
RRP: £9.99£6.99Set in Jamaica in the late 1980s and 1990s, Prophets is a poem of rhythmic and metaphoric inventiveness that portrays the social and cultural resonances of Jamaican society along with the tension between an ebullient cynicism and a heartfelt desire for... -
Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger by Gibson
RRP: £20.99£19.07Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea--remains Rome's best documented private individual... -
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds by Bernard de Fontenelle 9780520071711
RRP: £21.00£16.63Surveying the night sky, a charming philosopher and his hostess, the Marquise, are considering the possibility of travelers from the moon. 'What if they were skillful enough to navigate on the outer surface of our air, and from there, through their... -
The Making of a Pure Poet: Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (1904-1908) and his life while writing them: 1: Things That Happen When Reading Rilke Volume 1 by Augustus Young 9781853982057
RRP: £19.99£14.28When Franz Xaver Kappus, an aspiring poet and military cadet, wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke for advice in 1903, he could not in his wildest dreams have expected such a voluminous response from the acclaimed German writer. The young poet wasn't to know that... -
The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought by Roger A Sneed 9780814258064
£29.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258064Author Roger A SneedFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
The Zen of R2-D2: Ancient Wisdom from a Galaxy Far, Far Away Matthew Bortolin 9781614296201
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614296201Author Matthew BortolinFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
The Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in 16th Century England by Lorna Hutson 9780415162616
RRP: £21.99£19.34In a bold and brilliantly persuasive series of moves, Lorna Hutson draws upon new historicist and feminist theories to examine closely Renaissance literature and the cultural impact of the humanist project.The Usurer's Daughter: * provides startling new... -
'The Bard is a Very Singular Character': Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture by Ffion Jones
RRP: £7.99£7.04This volume approaches the fascinating figure of Iolo Morganwg - stonemason, poet and literary forger - from three distinct but interrelated angles. They all take as their starting point Iolo Morganwg's 'marginality' within mainstream literary society... -
Philaster: or Love Lies A-Bleeding: By Beaumont and Fletcher by Andrew Gurr 9780719064852
RRP: £14.99£13.64Now back in print after a lengthy absence, one of the most enduring plays of its time. Edited by the renowned scholar, and recent advisor to the Globe Theatre, Andrew Gurr. No real competition for this singular play. Joins the now very impressive roster... -
The Faber Book of London by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £14.99£9.80From the Great Fire of 1666 to the Blitz of the Second World War, from the building of the Tower of London to the building of Canary Wharf, London has always been much more than just a capital city. This anthology, edited by A. N. Wilson, reflects not... -
The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton by Stanley Corngold
RRP: £32.00£24.76A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United StatesIn September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany... -
The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes by Franco Moretti
RRP: £50.00£40.12Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003),... -
All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin by Douglas Field 9780199384150
RRP: £44.99£37.28Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single critical narrative to the confounding extent that James Baldwin manages. Was he a black or queer writer? Was he a religious or secular writer? Was he a spokesman for... -
The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an Eighteenth-Century Literary Form by Elizabeth R. Napier 9780198128601
£78.80The English Gothic novel has recently attracted renewed attention by modern critics who have argued its importance as a mirror of late 18th-century discomfort with the political, psychological, and sexual climate of the times. Elizabeth Napier's work... -
Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Von Arnim by Gerri Kimber
RRP: £20.99£17.19Explores the literary connection between Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim Elizabeth von Arnim is best remembered as the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898) and The Enchanted April (1922), as well as being the elder cousin of... -
Paul Auster by Mark Brown
RRP: £19.99£17.82Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster's essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By... -
Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation by John Tytell
RRP: £12.99£9.61Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs-their emergence in the late 1950s as the leading figures of the Beat movement marked one of the most spectacular developments in post-World War II American literature. John Tytell's classic study... -
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past by William Logan
RRP: £22.00£17.36In Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can... -
Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31 by Max Saunders 9780198829454
£105.40This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to 1931, in which writers chose a topic, described its... -
Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels: Selected Papers on Virgil and Rome by Nicholas Horsfall
RRP: £127.50£116.35Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and... -
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves by Bridget Escolme
RRP: £23.99£22.51This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It... -
Maninbo: Peace & War Ko Un 9781780372426
RRP: £15.00£9.80Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' Maninbo (Ten Thousand... -
The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant by Sahar Khalifeh
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566995Author Sahar KhalifehFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc