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Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Volume 2 by David MacGregor 9781787056534
RRP: €13.08€12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787056534Author David MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Inside Paradise Lost: Reading the Designs of Milton's Epic by David Quint
RRP: €47.60€37.52Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. David Quint's comprehensive... -
The Etymological Poetry of W. H. Auden, J. H. Prynne, and Paul Muldoon by Mia Gaudern
€97.89This book defines, analyses, and theorises a late modern 'etymological poetry' that is alive to the past lives of its words, and probes the possible significance of them both explicitly and implicitly. Close readings of poetry and criticism by Auden,... -
Narratology in Practice by Mieke Bal
RRP: €29.74€26.05Narratology in Practice opens up the well-known theory of narrative to various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Written as a companion to Mieke Bal's international classic Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, in which... -
The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms by Peter Childs 9780415340175
RRP: €44.02€38.71A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler's 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of... -
The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce by Matthew Bevis 9780199253999
€26.18'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873). The Art of Eloquence considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson,... -
Shakespeare, Time and the Victorians: A Pictorial Exploration by Stuart Sillars
RRP: €126.14€113.99Time and the visual sense were two essential preoccupations of the Victorians, and both were central to their presentations of Shakespeare's plays. In this extensive new study, Stuart Sillars examines multiple facets of this complex relationship. The... -
The Importance of Being Poirot Jeremy Black 9781587314278
RRP: €42.84€41.45Written by the renowned British historian who has been described as both utterly thorough and humanely delicate, Jeremy Black offers a guided tour through the mind of Agatha Christie and life during the Great World Wars. His incomparable treatment of... -
Children's and Young Adult Comics by Gwen Athene Tarbox
RRP: €28.55€26.08A complete critical guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Children's and Young Adult Comics helps readers explore how comics have engaged with one of their most crucial audiences. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the... -
The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction Jesse Matz (Kenyon College) 9781405100496
RRP: €41.59€36.69This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. A jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century. Examines the main... -
Selected Cronicas by Clarice Lispector
€13.14"In 1967, Brazil's leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast and passionate her interests were. This beautifully... -
Dickensian Laughter: Essays on Dickens and Humour by Malcolm Andrews 9780199651597
RRP: €52.35€51.99How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character of Dickensian humour? These are the questions explored in this book on a topic that has been strangely neglected in critical studies over the last half century. Dickens's friend... -
The Oulipo and Modern Thought by Dennis Duncan
RRP: €89.25€70.52The impact of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle), one of the most important groups of experimental writers of the late twentieth century, is still being felt in contemporary literature, criticism, and theory, both in Europe and the US... -
<i>Tria sunt</i>: An Art of Poetry and Prose by Martin Camargo
RRP: €35.64€28.63The Tria sunt, named for its opening words, was a widely used and highly ambitious book composed in England in the late fourteenth century during a revival of interest in the art of poetry and prose.The backbone of this comprehensive guide to writing... -
Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Robert Macfarlane 9780199296507
RRP: €109.48€108.36'"Originality" is only plagiarizing from a great many', remarked Rupert Brooke, stealing the line from Voltaire. Questions of originality, and accusations of plagiarism, are as old as literature, but different literary cultures have interpreted the... -
Ideology by Terry Eagleton 9780582237162
RRP: €65.44€62.93This collection of readings on the concept of ideology is brought together by the Marxist critic, Terry Eagleton. His introduction traces the historical evolution of ideology and examines in a more theoretical style the various meanings of the word and... -
The Transmission of "Beowulf": Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior by Leonard Neidorf
€57.08Beowulf, like The Iliad and The Odyssey, is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances. In The Transmission of Beowulf, Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to the study of the... -
Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823270620
RRP: €28.55€24.80First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes's writings, the picture of Descartes as the father of modern philosophy: the thinker who founded the edifice of... -
Love Three: A Study of a Poem by George Herbert by Aaron Kunin 9781940696829
RRP: €17.84€15.60This is a unique text deploying simultaneous modes of writing in a highly synchronous way. Kunin is an esteemed scholar of poetry yet offers a conversational guide any casual readers can follow with interest. For its bulk and precisely focused subject,... -
The Poems of Shelley: Volume Four: 1820-1821 Michael Rossington 9781032477428
RRP: €45.21€43.65Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the fourth volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents... -
Untitled by To Be Confirmed S&s Canada
RRP: €33.31€18.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982164508Author To Be Confirmed S&s CanadaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 140g -
Kreutzer Sonata Variations: Lev Tolstoy's Novella and Counterstories by Sofiya Tolstaya and Lev Lvovich Tolstoy by Michael R. Katz
RRP: €61.88€59.63A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Lev Tolstoy's controversial novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the first... -
Transforming Tales: Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval French Literature by Miranda Griffin 9780199686988
€124.95Transforming Tales argues that the study of transformation is crucial for understanding a wide range of canonical work in medieval French literature. From the lais and Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, through the Roman de la... -
Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor by Helena Michie
RRP: €28.55€26.00Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London's National Portrait Gallery. Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meta archival meditation, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. Our subject is Sir... -
Aristotle`s Poetics Stephen Halliwell 9780226313948
RRP: €33.32€32.59This interpretation of Aristotle's "Poetics" seeks to demonstrate that it is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art and that it hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general. Assessing this theory against the background of earlier... -
Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry by Aaron M. Moe 9781498550437
RRP: €53.55€46.99Zoopoetics assumes Aristotle was right. The general origin of poetry resides, in part, in the instinct to imitate. But it is an innovative imitation. An exploration of the oeuvres of Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, W. S. Merwin, and Brenda Hillman reveals... -
A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J A Burrow
RRP: €38.07€33.71Originally published in 1965, A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an interpretation of the most important poem in Middle English literature, the only fourteenth century work which can stand beside Chaucer. The book examines the poem's... -
On Whitman by C. K. Williams 9780691176109
RRP: €19.03€15.36In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it--to explore why Whitman's epic... -
New Essays on The Sun Also Rises by Linda Wagner-Martin
RRP: €34.50€29.06The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel and is widely considered to be the most important of his longer works of fiction. Written in an accessible style by prominent scholars, this collection of essays provides helpful and valuable insight... -
Angela Carter and Surrealism: 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic' by Anna Watz
RRP: €52.35€45.74In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xaviere Gauthier's ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surrealisme et sexualite (1971). Although the translation was never published, the project at once confirmed and consolidated Carter's... -
Pindar's Victory Songs by Frank Nisetich 9780801823565
RRP: €38.68€35.09Pindar's victory odes, written in the fifth century B.C. to honor the heroes of the great athletic festivals, are some of the most powerful and intricate works of ancient Greek poetry-and among the most difficult to bring to modern readers. With precise... -
The Man of Mode: New Edition by George Etherege
€13.15Arguably the most perfectly poised of Restoration wit comedies, The Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, or nonchalance, matching the beguiling 'easiness' and 'complaisance' of its central character. The play's imaginative... -
Reading Catullus by John Godwin 9781904675648
€32.74Of all the Roman poets Catullus is the most accessible for the modern reader. His poems range from the sublimely beautiful to the scatologically disgusting, from the world of heroic epic poetry to the dirt of the Roman streets. This accessible book,... -
Providence After Dark and Other Writings by T E D Klein 9781614982685
RRP: €35.70€35.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982685Author T E D KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 780g -
Helene Cixous: Authorship, Autobiography and Love by Susan Sellers 9780745612553
€21.53This is an introductory study of the work of Helene Cixous, novelist, dramatist and critic, whose work has had an extensive impact on the new French feminist theoretical movement.Book InformationISBN 9780745612553Author Susan SellersFormat PaperbackPage... -
Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form by Anna Kornbluh 9780823280384
RRP: €26.17€22.84During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice-drawing persistent... -
Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction by Bernice Murphy
RRP: €21.41€19.81Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction provides an accessible, concise and reliable overview of core critical terminology, key theoretical approaches, and the major genres and sub-genres within popular fiction. The book also provides critical and... -
The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
RRP: €32.13€25.06Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) is the most important of the Italian Realist School of novelists. This new edition of "The House by the Medlar Tree" ("I Malavoglia") makes the complete English version of his masterpiece available once more. The story of the... -
Poetry and Psychiatry: Essays on Early Twentieth-Century Russian Symbolist Culture by Magnus Ljunggren 9781618113696
RRP: €19.03€18.54A century ago the Symbolists in Moscow and St. Petersburg dreamed of a fundamental transformation of life in Russia. From their reading of signs in the heavens, these poets, philosophers, and mystics sensed that tsardom was on the threshold of an... -
The Transplants by Giuseppe Prezzolini 9781599541372
RRP: €21.42€17.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541372Author Giuseppe PrezzoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 229mm...