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The Black Woman by Toni Cade Bambara 9780743476973
£13.02A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be heard. In this... -
The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies and Tabloids in Early Modern France by Joan DeJean 9780226141411
RRP: £28.00£27.39The concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan DeJean suggests, its modern form, the same version that today's politicians decry and savvy artists exploit, was invented in seventeenth-century France. The Reinvention of Obscenity casts a fresh... -
Dante: Contemporary Perspectives by Amilcare A. Iannucci 9780802077363
RRP: £32.00£26.50Dante: Contemporary Perspectives gathers recent and newly commissioned articles on Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), whose epic the Divine Comedy, is one of the landmarks of world literature. The essays in this volume probe current critical assumptions about... -
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: Gender, Race, and Sexuality Ania Loomba 9781472421760
RRP: £43.99£38.44Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women's Collaborative Book Prize 2017Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies is a volume of essays by leading scholars in the field of early modern studies on the history, present state, and future... -
The Near and Distant God: Poetry, Idealism and Religious Thought from Holderlin to Eliot by Ian Cooper
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book shows that a major strand in the development of modern poetry in German and English can be seen as a protracted response to the religious crises of post-Idealist thought. It focuses on the hermeneutic dimension of Die Religion.About the... -
A Companion to Poetic Genre Erik Martiny (University of Aix-En-Provence, France) 9781444336733
RRP: £37.95£34.36A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural... -
Yeats and Violence by Michael Wood 9780199557660
RRP: £45.49£45.15The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen' This is a book about how poetry,... -
Ballads, Songs and Snatches: The Appropriation of Folk Song and Popular Culture in British 19th-Century Realist Prose C.M. Jackson-Houlston 9781840142969
RRP: £86.99£75.94As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and readership positions. It focuses on allusion to folksong, and, more tangentially, to popular culture, areas... -
Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel by Paula R. Backscheider
RRP: £45.50£40.26"Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel" is the first in-depth study of Rowe's prose fiction. A four-volume collection of her work was a bestseller for a hundred years after its publication, but today Rowe is a largely... -
The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement by Jordan Schonig 9780190093891
RRP: £28.49£27.80In The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement, author Jordan Schonig provides a new way of theorizing cinematic motion by examining cinema's "motion forms": structures, patterns, or shapes of movement unique to the moving image. From the... -
Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age by Garrett Stewart
RRP: £30.99£19.04Book, Text, Medium: Cross Sectional Reading for a Digital Age utilizes codex history, close reading, and language philosophy to assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It examines what happens to the reading experience... -
Thinking in Henry James by Sharon Cameron 9780226092317
RRP: £28.00£27.39Thinking in Henry James identifies what is genuinely strange and radical about James's concept of consciousness-first, the idea that it may not always be situated within this or that person but rather exists outside or "between," in some transpersonal... -
Discognition by Steven Shaviro
RRP: £14.99£10.23What is consciousness? What is it like to feel pain, or to see the color red? Do robots and computers really think? For that matter, do plants and amoebas think? If we ever meet intelligent aliens, will we be able to understand what they say to us?... -
Ausias March: Verse Translations of Thirty Poems Ausias March 9781855661301
RRP: £16.99£14.61Verse translations of selected works by Ausias March, the great fifteenth-century Valencian poet. The Valencian Ausias March [1400-1459] was one of the greatest poets writing in Europe in the fifteenth century. His work is characterized by a powerful... -
Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland by Joseph Falaky Nagy
RRP: £37.00£32.42How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from the... -
The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth by Christopher Schaberg
RRP: £23.99£23.80A 2019 Prose Award Finalist What is the role of literary studies in an age of Twitter threads and viral news? If the study of literature today is not just about turning to classic texts with age-old questions, neither is it a rejection of close... -
Dickens and the Dream of Cinema by Grahame Smith 9780719055638
RRP: £19.99£17.82An original blending of literary and film studies which seeks to dissolve barriers between the two disciplines. Offers a new reading of Dickens from the perspective of film, technology and visuality. Proposes a new reading of the emergence of film in the... -
Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis by Richard Terdiman
RRP: £34.00£30.29This book is about memory-about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural... -
Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690-1760 by John O'Brien
RRP: £26.50£23.29In the fall of 1723, two London theaters staged, almost simultaneously, pantomime performances of the Faust story. Unlike traditional five-act plays, pantomime - a bawdy hybrid of dance, music, spectacle, and commedia dell'arte featuring the familiar... -
Blank Verse: A Guide to Its History and Use by Robert B. Shaw 9780821417584
RRP: £19.99£17.54Blank verse-unrhymed iambic pentameter-is familiar to many as the form of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's Paradise Lost. Since its first use in English in the sixteenth century, it has provided poets with a powerful and versatile metrical line, enabling... -
Mydriasis: Followed by 'to the Icebergs' J M G Le Clezio 9780857426543
RRP: £14.99£13.03While presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Cl zio in 2008, the Nobel Committee called him the "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization... -
Four Major Plays Vol.2 by Henrik Ibsen
£6.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451528032Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Three Medieval Greek Romances by Gavin Betts 9780367149956
RRP: £32.99£29.16Published in 1995: These three 14th century medieval Greek romances, which are presented here for the first time in English translation, form part of a curious and previously neglected corner of literature.Book InformationISBN 9780367149956Author Gavin... -
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: £31.95£25.17Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear,... -
Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture by Oskar Cox Jensen 9780198812425
RRP: £83.00£81.43Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple categorisation. He was an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian,... -
Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair by Michael Dango
RRP: £27.99£24.14In this expansive and provocative new work, Michael Dango theorizes how aesthetic style manages crisis-and why taking crisis seriously means taking aesthetics seriously. Detoxing, filtering, bingeing, and ghosting: these are four actions that have come... -
Eustache Deschamps: Selected Poems by Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi
RRP: £53.99£46.87Eustache Deschamps studied under the tutelage of Guillaume de Marchault, traveled in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt-where he was said to have been made a slave-and eventually become recognized as one of the great French medieval poets. He was the first... -
The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
RRP: £74.00£64.85Despite the great literary achievements of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet, Ricardian English books were still a niche market in 1400. As Kathryn Kerby-Fulton shows, however, their generation was transformational in nurturing the resurgence of... -
Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture by Bernard Bergonzi 9780198112617
£32.73What is going on in English studies? Bernard Bergonzi, a literary critic and teacher, who has also published poetry and fiction and has been involved in university administration, seeks to answer this frequently-raised question. With the advent of theory... -
Ivy Compton-Burnett by Barbara Hardy
RRP: £23.99£21.85The first fully detailed and critically contextualised study of the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett. This re-valuation of a neglected artist is a close analysis of forms, ideas and language in novels which range from her first conventionally moral... -
Pre-Raphaelitism: Poetry and Painting by Lindsay Smith 9780746308059
RRP: £18.69£17.08This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poem to painting, of the visual to the verbal, to examine those aspects of the movement that account for its enduring legacy. Beginning with the profound and... -
Xenophon by Dr Fiona Hobden
£17.82This book offers a concise introduction to Xenophon, the Athenian historian, political thinker, moral philosopher and literary innovator who was also a pupil of Socrates, a military general on campaign in Persia, and an exile in residence in the... -
Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege by Adam Parkes 9780192866295
RRP: £78.00£71.28During a modern age that saw the expansion of its democracy, the fading of its empire, and two world wars, Britain's hereditary aristocracy was pushed from the centre to the margins of the nation's affairs. Widely remarked on by commentators at the time,... -
Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression by Bill Morgan 9780872864795
RRP: £15.99£11.04To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly one million copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing, publishing, and defending Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem within a broader context of obscenity issues and... -
The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture by Joel Black
RRP: £27.50£24.12What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of pop star John Lennon and President Ronald Reagon? In "The Aesthetics of... -
Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media by Marjorie Perloff 9780226657349
RRP: £24.00£23.03This text considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the Modernist poets comes up against the "natural speech" of the "Donahue" talk show, or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of... -
On Writing with Photography by Karen Beckman
RRP: £21.99£19.59From James Agee to W. G. Sebald, there has been an explosion of modern documentary narratives and fiction combining text and photography in complex and fascinating ways. However, these contemporary experiments are part of a tradition that stretches back... -
Heroic Awe: The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic by Kelly Lehtonen 9781487545369
RRP: £49.00£40.03During the Renaissance, the most renowned model of epic poetry was Virgil's Aeneid, a poem promoting an influential concept of heroism based on the commitment to one's nation and gods. However, Longinus' theory of the sublime - newly recovered during the... -
Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords by Patricia Parker
RRP: £58.00£50.57What does the keyword "continence" in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the "quince" with weddings that is crucial for A Midsummer Night's Dream? How... -
Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture by Chris Mourant
RRP: £27.99£26.01This book considers Mansfield's ambivalent position as a colonial woman writer by examining her contributions to the political weekly The New Age, the avant-garde little magazine Rhythm and the literary journal The Athenaeum.Book InformationISBN...