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Dramatic Disgust – Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane by Sarah J. Ablett
RRP: €51.16€42.30Aesthetic disgust is a key component of most classic works of drama because it has much more potential than to simply shock the audience. This first extensive study on dramatic disgust places this sensation among pity and fear as one of the core emotions... -
Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity by Laura Doyle
RRP: €24.98€21.86Modernism as a global phenomenon is the focus of the essays gathered in this book. The term "geomodernisms" indicates their subjects' continuity with and divergence from commonly understood notions of modernism. The contributors consider modernism as it... -
Shirley Jackson's American Gothic by Darryl Hattenhauer 9780791456088
RRP: €30.36€26.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791456088Author Darryl HattenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Eighteenth-century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Suvir Kaul
RRP: €28.55€26.00'This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all-too-insularly English world still conjured by period specialists. Hogarthian whores and Grub Street hacks, coffee houses and fashionable... -
Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity by Lisa E. Bloom
RRP: €44.02€38.71Featuring sixty-seven illustrations, and providing an important reckoning and visualization of the previously hidden Jewish 'ghosts' within US art, Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art addresses the veiled role of Jewishness in the understanding of... -
The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome by Harriet Fertik 9781421432892
RRP: €56.53€49.94How Romans used the world of the house to interpret and interrogate the role of the emperor.The Julio-Claudian dynasty, beginning with the rise of Augustus in the late first century BCE and ending with the death of Nero in 68 CE, was the first ruling... -
Victorian Women Poets by Tess Cosslett 9780582276499
RRP: €59.49€57.41Through her selection of fourteen essays, Tess Cosslett charts the rediscovery by feminist critics of the Victorian Women Poets such as Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, and the subsequent developments as critics use a... -
Bergeners by Tomas Espedal
RRP: €20.22€17.39Bergeners is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens in New York City at the swanky Standard Hotel and closes in Berlin at Askanischer Hof, a hotel that has seen better days. But between these two global metropolises we find Bergen, Norway... -
Bonoure and Buxum: A Study of Wives in Late Medieval English Literature by Sue Niebrzydowski 9783039107278
RRP: €54.86€44.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039107278Author Sue NiebrzydowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 350g -
Literary Theory and Criminology Rafe McGregor (Edge Hill University, UK) 9781032262802
RRP: €44.02€38.71Literary Theory and Criminology demonstrates the significance of contemporary literary theory to the discipline of criminology, particularly to those criminologists who are primarily concerned with questions of power, inequality, and harm. Drawing on... -
Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X) by Leofranc Holford-Strevens 9780199695010
RRP: €69.02€68.63This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall, published in 1968 but soon superseded by Marshall's own later discoveries as well as... -
Decadent Conservatism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Past by Dr Alex Murray 9780192858207
RRP: €92.82€84.82British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet... -
An Analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince Riley Quinn 9781912127610
RRP: €7.74€7.27How should rulers rule? What is the nature of power? These questions had already been asked when Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513. But what made his thinking on the topic different was his ability to interpret evidence: to look at old issues... -
Reading Modernist Poetry Michael H. Whitworth (University of Oxford, UK) 9781405167314
RRP: €36.83€32.67This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating. Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and othersConsiders key... -
On War and Writing by Samuel Hynes
RRP: €23.80€23.09"In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers... -
The Poetry of Punk: The Meaning Behind Punk Rock and Hardcore Lyrics Gerfried Ambrosch 9781138502345
RRP: €45.21€39.72Punk bands have produced an abundance of poetic texts, some crude, some elaborate, in the form of song lyrics. These lyrics are an ideal means by which to trace the developments and explain the conflicts and schisms that have shaped, and continue to... -
Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts by Nancy K. Miller
RRP: €45.21€39.72In the era of identity politics, whose is the I of cultural criticism? And what does the invention of an autobiographical persona have to do with contemporary theory? In Getting Personal , Nancy K. Miller reflects upon the ways in which contingencies of... -
What Is the Present? by Michael North 9780691179698
RRP: €41.65€33.01A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists... -
Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI by Gayle Rogers
RRP: €29.75€23.31In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical reasoning are supposed to have provided greater certainty in making claims about the future. Yet we constantly spin out scenarios about tomorrow, for... -
30 Great Myths about Chaucer by Thomas A. Prendergast
RRP: €24.93€17.05The facts and fictions that continue to shape our understanding of Chaucer and his place in literary tradition Is Chaucer the father of English literature? The first English poet? Was he a feminist? A political opportunist? A spy? Is Chaucer's language... -
The Cold of May Day Monday: An Approach to Irish Literary History by Robert Anthony Welch 9780199686841
€41.64The Cold of May Day Monday offers an indvidual view of the history of Irish literature from its very earliest phases up to the present day, more or less, with discussions of major writers such as Friel, Heaney, Derek Mahon, McGahern, and John Banville... -
Ptolemy I Soter: Themes and Issues by Professor Edward M. Anson
RRP: €29.74€25.92Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great's successors. He created the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms that rose in the aftermath of the great conqueror's death, ending with... -
Greek & Roman Hell: Visions, Tours and Descriptions of the Infernal Otherworld by Eileen Gardiner 9781599102382
RRP: €23.80€20.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599102382Author Eileen GardinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Wandering and Return in Finnegans Wake: An Integrative Approach to Joyce's Fictions by Kimberley J. Devlin 9780691607405
RRP: €38.08€29.46Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce's last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans Wake as an uncanny text, one that is both strange and familiar. In light of Freud's description of the uncanny as a haunting awareness of... -
Theories of Mimesis by Arne Melberg
RRP: €36.88€27.19Mimesis, with its connecting concepts of imitation, simile, and similarity, has been cited since classical times in the exploration of the relationship between art and reality. In this major study Arne Melberg discusses the theory and history of mimesis... -
We Have Our Voice: Selected Poems of Reesom Haile by Reesom Haile 9781569021330
RRP: €20.17€13.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569021330Author Reesom HaileFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 187g -
D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers: A Casebook by John Worthen 9780195170412
€52.07This casebook on D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is the first to address itself to the full text of the novel, first published in 1992. The introduction discusses the novel's composition and the range of approaches adopted by critics since its original... -
The Situationist International in Britain: Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde by Sam Cooper
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International's influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the... -
Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting by Harald Weinrich
RRP: €65.45€56.69"Our daily encounters with forgetting have not taught us enough about how much power it exercises over our lives, what reflections and feelings it evokes in different individuals, how even art and science presuppose-with sympathy or antipathy-forgetting,... -
The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology by Paul Cefalu 9780198808718
€134.43The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride... -
Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction by Benjamin Bateman
RRP: €90.44€82.23Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction breaks with appearance-based models of queer performativity and argues for the experiential richness and political potentials of recessive tendencies in twentieth and twenty-first-century queer... -
Baiae by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano 9780674021976
RRP: €35.64€28.16Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426-1503) was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy, the presiding spirit of the Accademia Pontaniana, and chief minister and tutor to the Aragonese Kings of Naples. He was also the most innovative and... -
Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels: A Critical Approach by Julia Round 9780786449804
RRP: €26.17€22.07This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary gothic traditions and discusses their presence in... -
Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation by Bharat Tandon 9781843311027
RRP: €22.55€21.75This important study investigates how Austen worked with, and played upon, the cracks and faultlines which time had uncovered in the ideals of polite conversation. In a wide-ranging argument combining intellectual history and literary stylistics, Bharat... -
The Self Unstable by Elisa Gabbert 9780984475292
RRP: €13.08€8.78Elisa Gabbert's The Self Unstable combines elements of memoir, philosophy, and aphorism to explore and trouble our ideas of the self, memory, happiness, aesthetics, love, and sex. With a sense of humor and an ability to find glimmers of the absurd in the... -
Wooden Os: Shakespeare's Theatres and England's Trees by Vin Nardizzi 9781487522612
RRP: €38.08€31.54Wooden Os is a study of the presence of trees and wood in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries - in plays set within forests, in character dialogue, and in props and theatre constructions. Vin Nardizzi connects these themes to the dependence,... -
The Critical Essays: v. 2: On Literary Composition by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
RRP: €29.69€27.83A master of ancient Greek prose styles.Dionysius of Halicarnassus had migrated to Rome by 30 BC, where he lived until his death some time after 8 BC, writing his Roman Antiquities and teaching the art of rhetoric and literary composition. Dionysius'... -
A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II: The Histories Richard Dutton (Ohio State University) 9781405136068
RRP: €48.73€43.19This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the... -
Ambition: An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise by Professor Eckart Goebel
RRP: €26.17€22.94We describe people who are "consumed" or "devoured" by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often... -
Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader by Ewan Fernie 9780199265572
€45.39The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current...