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The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets: Poetic Responses to English Poetry from Chaucer to Yeats by David Hopkins
RRP: $77.98$68.37The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets collects together writings by all the major poetic figures from Chaucer to Yeats demonstrating their vivid responses to each other, ranging from elegiac eulogy to burlesque and satire. The anthology is arranged... -
The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism by Terence Brown
RRP: $50.68$42.88One of Ireland's foremost literary and cultural historians, Terence Brown's command of the intellectual and cultural currents running through the Irish literary canon is second to none, and he has been enormously influential in shaping the field of Irish... -
Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty by John Vyvyan 9780856832949
RRP: $42.80$26.52Looking at some of the Shakespearean comedies, author John Vyvyan suggests they express a consistent, profoundly Christian philosophy of life based on the Platonic ideas of beauty and love. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and All's Well... -
Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney's Poetics by Michael Cavanagh 9780813218564
RRP: $48.65$44.27Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaney's poetics- his concept... -
Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History by Joseph Lennon 9780815631644
$58.36Centuries before W. B. Yeats wove Indian, Japanese, and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinships in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the unacknowledged discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex... -
Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power by Nick Vaughan-Williams
RRP: $48.73$44.28This book, newly available in paperback, presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the... -
Prolegomena to Homer, 1795 by Friedrich August Wolf
RRP: $78.00$61.48The subjects Wolf addressed have dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries. Especially important were his analyses of the history of writing and of the nature of Alexandrian scholarship and his consideration of the composition of the Homeric... -
Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness by Ben Nichols 9781526163813
RRP: $48.75$42.49Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to 'difference', queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to... -
Reading Beyond the Code: Literature and Relevance Theory by Terence Cave 9780198863519
RRP: $62.38$57.23This book explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples-lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain,... -
So Far, So Good: An Adventurous Life by Paddy Barry 9781916099845
RRP: $38.90$30.44So Far, So Good recounts the story of an ordinary man who has enjoyed extraordinary adventures throughout his life. Trained as a civil engineer, Paddy Barry managed to combine raising a family with exploring remote parts of the world, often on his Galway... -
Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England Meg Twycross 9780754602309
RRP: $253.50$219.39Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing... -
Beyond the Anthropological Difference by Matthew Calarco
RRP: $33.15$28.70The aim of this Element is to provide a novel framework for gaining a critical grasp on the present situation concerning animals. It offers reflections on resisting the established order as well as suggestions on what forms alternative, pro-animal ways... -
Political Journalism in London, 1695-1720 - Defoe, Swift, Steele and their Contemporaries by Ashley Marshall
RRP: $185.25$177.61A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period. The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) saw a remarkable boom in political journalism and newspaper culture in London, in which some of the leading... -
Title Deeds: the Hidden Stories Behind 50 Books by Gary Dexter 9781906964245
RRP: $25.33$21.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906964245Author Gary DexterFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes 9780691160580
RRP: $68.25$54.87In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the... -
Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea; or, A Narrative of Her Journey from London into Cornwall Anna Trapnel 9780866985581
RRP: $54.60$53.41In 1654, Anna Trapnel - a Baptist, Fifth Monarchist, millenarian, and visionary from London - fell into a trance during which she prophesied passionately and at length against Oliver Cromwell and his government. The prophecies attracted widespread public... -
Historians on Chaucer: The 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales by Stephen Rigby 9780198816379
$87.09As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries... -
Bird by Erik Anderson
RRP: $19.48$14.96Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, is the thing with feathers. Erik Anderson, on the other hand, regards our obsession with birds as too... -
The Other Four Plays of Sophocles: <I>Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, </I>and <I>Philoctetes</I> by Sophocles 9781421411378
RRP: $40.95$36.41There are seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles. Three of them form the Theban Plays, which recount the story of Thebes during and after the reign of Oedipus. Here, David Slavitt translates the remaining tragedies - the "other four plays:" Ajax, Women... -
Essay on Negation by Paolo Virno
RRP: $38.03$36.95As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at work in its inconspicuousness is a powerful apparatus, which orchestrates language, signification, and the world at large. What... -
Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 by Tamara Trojanowska 9781487524593
RRP: $120.90$101.42Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland's cultural restoration,... -
The Trials of Frances Howard: Fact and Fiction at the Court of King James David Lindley 9780415052061
RRP: $263.25$229.48David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy.Reviews'This is an... -
The Value of Style in Fiction by Garrett Stewart 9781316645215
RRP: $46.78$39.72This is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis - both appreciative and interpretive in its 'evaluations' - across dozens of authors, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison. The Value of Style in Fiction... -
Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Person) 9781843846765
RRP: $68.23$66.07Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture. Medieval women were normally denied access to public educational institutions, and so also denied the gateways to most leadership positions. Modern... -
Cultural Politics - Queer Reading by Alan Sinfield
RRP: $74.08$65.09Following a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics - Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies.An illuminating introduction... -
Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque by Cynthia Wall
RRP: $60.45$58.87In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of "approach... -
Thrill of Repulsion: Excursions into Horror Culture by William Burns 9780764351433
RRP: $44.83$29.35This collection of carefully curated lists, articles, and interviews celebrates the beleaguered horror genre across different media while tracing the history of its acceptance into popular culture. Divided into four sections-Film, Television, Literature... -
Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 by Dale Townshend
RRP: $219.38$165.26Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 provides the first sustained scholarly account of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature (fiction; poetry; drama) in the late eighteenth and... -
Allegory and Violence by Gordon Teskey
RRP: $144.30$125.68The only form of monumental artistic expression practiced from antiquity to the Enlightenment, allegory evolved to its fullest complexity in Dante's Commedia and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Drawing on a wide range of literary, visual, and critical works in... -
The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries by R. R. Bolgar
RRP: $91.63$75.15Since its first publication in 1954, The Classical Heritage has become established as a classic introduction to cultural and intellectual history from the Carolingian age to the end of the Renaissance.Reviews'Mr Bolgar continually suppies concrete and... -
Cultural Graphology: Writing After Derrida by Juliet Fleming
RRP: $156.00$149.39"Cultural Graphology" could be the name of a new human science: this was Derrida's speculation when, in the late 1960s, he imagined a discipline that combined psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and a commitment to the topic of writing. He never undertook... -
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain by Alan Sinfield 9780826477026
$69.26Alan Sinfield (1941-) is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. The publication of Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain in 1989 firmly established him as one of our foremost writers on literature and a leading critic of postwar... -
A Moving Rhetoricke: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England by Christina Luckyj 9780719083259
RRP: $38.98$34.34An investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources, from domestic conduct guides to emblem books, this study offers fresh perspectives on both culture and literature. -- .Book InformationISBN 9780719083259Author Christina LuckyjFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Memory Marketplace: Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Irish and International Theatre by Emilie Pine
RRP: $58.48$51.68What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace, Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends... -
Encounters: Conversations on Life and Writing Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9780745653877
RRP: $29.23$26.48"Isn't it ... particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work?" Frederic-Yves Jeannet asks Helene Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. "[I]t's only in writing, on paper, ... that I reach the most unknown, the strangest, the most advanced part of... -
Birds in Medieval English Poetry - Metaphors, Realities, Transformations by Michael J. Warren
RRP: $156.00$143.68First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower. Birds featured in many aspects of medieval people's lives, not least in their poetry. But despite their... -
Querido Diego, Te Abraza Quiela by Elena Poniatowska: By Elena Poniatowska by Nathanial Gardner 9780719081057
RRP: $48.75$42.96One of the threads that runs through Elena Poniatowska's oeuvre is that of foreigners who have fallen in love with Mexico and its people. This is certainly the case of Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela - a brief novel (so short it was originally published... -
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: A Reader's Guide by Deborah a Martinsen 9781644697849
RRP: $35.08$33.93Crime and Punishment: A Reader's Guide focuses on narrative strategy, psychology, and ideology. Martinsen demonstrates how Dostoevsky first plunges the reader into Raskolnikov's fevered brain, creating sympathy for him, and she explains why most readers... -
The New Inn: By Ben Jonson by Michael Hattaway 9780719059858
RRP: $29.23$26.60The New Inn is one of the most neglected of Jonson's plays which is now finding a new and appreciative audience. May be read, according to this Editor's introduction, as a tribute to Shakespeare, and as a belated recognition that the fantasies of romance... -
Telling Children's Stories: Narrative Theory and Children's Literature by Michael Cadden
RRP: $54.58$47.07The most accessible approach yet to children's literature and narrative theory, Telling Children's Stories is a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of...