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An Analysis of Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers Ruth Jackson 9781912453801
RRP: $41.98$37.15On Religion is a major text for the development of modern religious thought in the West and its author, German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, is remembered as the Father of Modern Protestant Theology, as well as for his contributions to philosophy,... -
The Transplants by Giuseppe Prezzolini 9781599541372
RRP: $37.80$29.00Apologies 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... -
Selected Orations: v. 1 by Libanius
RRP: $52.40$49.90Pagans' advocate.Libanius (AD 314-393) was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism. His story, as presented in his Autobiography and the Life by Eunapius, is supplemented by information from a correspondence of over 1500 items and... -
Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist by Clara Jones
RRP: $50.38$45.89Clara Jones re-reads Woolf's fiction and non-fiction in light of her examination of the details of Woolf's involvement with Morley College, the People's Suffrage Federation, the Women's Co-operative Guild and the National Federation of Women's Institutes... -
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science by Bruce Clarke
RRP: $104.98$93.45With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into... -
Orwell Your Orwell: A Worldview on the Slab by David Ramsay Steele
RRP: $58.80$49.71To those who think they know what George Orwell is all about, this book unpacks surprise after surprise. Orwell Your Orwell reveals an Orwell very different from the one most people think of. It gives an unexpected yet convincing picture of Orwell's... -
Piers Plowman: The A Version by Miceal F. Vaughan 9781421401409
RRP: $44.10$39.21The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing... -
Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species by Neel Ahuja
RRP: $46.18$40.93In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and bacteria at the borders of U.S. influence, a phenomenon called... -
The Hatred of Literature by William Marx
RRP: $75.50$61.30For the last 2,500 years literature has been attacked, booed, and condemned, often for the wrong reasons and occasionally for very good ones. The Hatred of Literature examines the evolving idea of literature as seen through the eyes of its adversaries:... -
The Cambridge History of French Thought by Michael Moriarty 9781107163676
$249.31French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, this book follows themes and developments of thought... -
Companion to Victor Pelevin by Sofya Khagi 9781644697764
RRP: $50.38$47.99Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. It provides a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, and... -
Julio Cortazar: Mundos y Modos by Saul Yurkievich
$36.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788435026703Author Saul YurkievichFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint EdhasaPublisher EdhasaWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm * 23mm -
Calibrations: Reading For The Social by Ato Quayson 9780816638406
RRP: $44.08$39.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816638406Author Ato QuaysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Yeats and Violence by Michael Wood 9780199557660
RRP: $95.53$94.82The 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,... -
Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel by Paula R. Backscheider
RRP: $95.55$84.55"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... -
Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression Jenny DiPlacidi 9781526148117
RRP: $52.50$37.63The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling,... -
The Magnetic Lady: Ben Jonson by Peter Happe 9780719080401
RRP: $41.98$38.01This is the new paperback edition of the first fully annotated volume of Ben Jonson's 'The Magnetic Lady' written in 1632. It contains textual and explanatory notes and the text is modernised for student use. The introduction places the play in the... -
The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement by Jordan Schonig 9780190093891
RRP: $59.83$58.38In 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... -
The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth by Christopher Schaberg
RRP: $50.38$49.98A 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... -
Works: v. 7 by Demosthenes
RRP: $52.40$49.90The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
The Historical Renaissance: New Essays on Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture by Heather Dubrow
RRP: $84.00$80.96The Historical Renaissance both exemplifies and examines the most influential current in contemporary studies of the English Renaissance: the effort to analyze the interplay between literature, history, and politics. The broad and varied manifestations... -
British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology by Paula R. Backscheider
$87.34This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding fully the literary history of women writers. Paula R... -
Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan by Hugh McFadden 9781843510666
RRP: $41.98$39.52Writer, poet, lecturer, broadcaster and man-of -letters, John Jordan (1930-88) was a distinguished scholar-critic in the Dublin of his day, teaching English at University College Dublin (1955-66) and at the Memorial University of Newfoundland at St... -
Byron Among the English Poets: Literary Tradition and Poetic Legacy by Matthew Ward
RRP: $189.00$171.00For Byron, poetic achievement was always relative. Writing meant dwelling in an echo chamber of other voices that enriched and contextualised what he had to say. He believed that literary traditions mattered and regarded poetic form as something embedded... -
New Caribbean Junior Readers 1 by Diane Browne 9780602226732
$31.23Build on infant foundations to develop the reading and language skills needed by 7 to 11 year olds in Books 1-4, and consolidate and reinforce these skills with Book 5 for the final year of Primary School. - Develop comprehension and critical thinking... -
Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties by Philip E. Wegner
RRP: $46.18$40.93Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fostered a... -
Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity-China, 1900-1937 by Lydia H. Liu 9780804725354
RRP: $94.50$83.75Are languages incommensurate? If so, how do people establish and maintain hypothetical equivalences between words and their meanings? What does it mean to translate one culture into the language of another on the basis of commonly conceived equivalences?... -
Mydriasis: Followed by 'to the Icebergs' J M G Le Clezio 9780857426543
RRP: $31.48$27.36While 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... -
La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From History to Myth by Sandra Messinger Cypess
RRP: $41.98$36.83Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, and confidante of Hernan Cortes, Dona Marina-La... -
Four Major Plays Vol.2 by Henrik Ibsen
$13.59Apologies 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 -
De-Scribing Empire: Post-Colonialism and Textuality by Alan Lawson 9780415105477
RRP: $92.38$80.72De-Scribing Empire is a stunning collection of first-class essays. Collectively they examine the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. The volume as a whole puts forward strategies... -
Three Medieval Greek Romances by Gavin Betts 9780367149956
RRP: $69.28$61.24Published 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: $67.10$52.86Harold 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,... -
The Buke of the Howlat by Richard Holland Ralph Hanna, III 9781897976395
RRP: $84.00$80.33Critical edition of an important Scottish poem, highlighting its striking poetic features. The Buke of the Howlat was composed in the late 1440s for Elizabeth Douglas, wife of Archibald Douglas, earl of Moray. It is one of the great monuments of... -
Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture by Oskar Cox Jensen 9780198812425
RRP: $174.30$171.00Charles 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,... -
Shakespeare, Time and the Victorians: A Pictorial Exploration by Stuart Sillars
RRP: $222.60$199.56Time 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... -
Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture by Bernard Bergonzi 9780198112617
$68.73What 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... -
The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel by Elaine Freedgood 9780226261638
RRP: $54.60$52.19"The Ideas in Things" explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood reconnects the things... -
Ivy Compton-Burnett by Barbara Hardy
RRP: $50.38$45.89The 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... -
The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought by Sonali Thakkar 9781503637337
RRP: $50.38$43.76World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life, and race's status as conceptual common sense and a justification for...