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Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words Steven Gould Axelrod 9780801843747
RRP: $51.68$49.35This is a "biography of the imagination, " an inner narrative of Sylvia Plath's life and work. Combining psychoanalytical, feminist, and intertextual methods, Steven Gould Axelrod traces what Roland Barthes has called "the body's journey through language... -
Talk on the Wilde Side by Ed Cohen
RRP: $48.73$42.53Talk on the Wilde Side focuses on the formation of a new `type' of sexual category in the newpaper reports of the trials of Oscar Wilde, relating this to middle-class discussions of masculinity throughout the nineteenth century.Book InformationISBN... -
Othello: Texts and Contexts by William Shakespeare
$53.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312398989Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackImprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning -
Stage, Stake, and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre by Andreas Höfele 9780198701019
RRP: $70.18$70.08The powerful exchanges between stage, stake, and scaffold - the theatre, the bear garden and the spectacle of public execution - crucially informed Shakespeare's explorations into the construction and workings of 'the human'. The theatre's family... -
Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987 - 2007 Liam Harte 9781444336207
RRP: $50.60$44.07Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some... -
English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 by David Fairer 9780582227774
RRP: $105.28$100.54In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer's book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional... -
War Poetry: An Introductory Reader by Simon Featherstone
RRP: $74.08$65.09War Poetry is a major new anthology of poetry combined with substantial introductory material. Demonstrating the full range and diversity of the writing which came out of both world wars, War Poetry includes selections from established and... -
Auto/Ethnographies: Sex and Death and Symbolic Interaction in the Eighth Moment of Qualitative Inquiry: Seven Essays on the Self-Ethnography of Self by Michael Hemmingson 9781434402882
RRP: $23.38$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434402882Author Michael HemmingsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 239gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Ciceronian Controversies by JoAnn DellaNeva 9780674025202
RRP: $58.40$46.14The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favored imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferred to follow an eclectic array of literary models. This... -
J. G. Ballard by D. Harlan Wilson 9780252082955
RRP: $33.13$29.39Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and... -
The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary by Liz Herbert Mcavoy
RRP: $214.50$143.68During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden -... -
Landscape and Subjectivity in the Work of Patrick Keiller, W.G. Sebald, and Iain Sinclair by David Anderson
RRP: $156.00$142.47This book situates the film-maker Patrick Keiller alongside the writers W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair as the three leading voices in 'English psychogeography', offering new insights to key works including London, The Rings of Saturn, and Lights Out for... -
Elizabeth I: Translations, 1592-1598 by Janel Mueller 9780226201320
RRP: $107.25$89.88England's Virgin Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, had a reputation for proficiency in foreign languages, repeatedly demonstrated in multilingual exchanges with foreign emissaries at court and in the extemporized Latin she spoke on formal visits to Cambridge and... -
The Saga of the Volsungs: with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford 9781624666346
RRP: $97.50$83.28From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and... -
'Ungainefull Arte': Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era by Richard A. McCabe 9780198716525
RRP: $229.13$195.49From antiquity to the Renaissance the pursuit of patronage was central to the literary career, yet relationships between poets and patrons were commonly conflicted, if not antagonistic, necessitating compromise even as they proffered stability and status... -
Irish Literature in Transition, 1880-1940: Volume 4 by Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
$204.83The years between 1880 and 1940 were a time of unprecedented literary production and political upheaval in Ireland. It is the era of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Revival, and a time when many major Irish writers - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Lady Gregory... -
The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile and the Nation by Zeina Halabi
RRP: $46.78$38.04Based on close readings of texts, Zeina Halabi counters the prevalent reading of late 20th-century Arabic literature as a neoliberal, apolitical, fragmented discourse.Book InformationISBN 9781474429009Author Zeina HalabiFormat PaperbackImprint Edinburgh... -
J.M. Coetzee and the Archive: Fiction, Theory, and Autobiography by Marc Farrant
$59.14Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records that document his later career as both writer and... -
Romance Writing Lynne Pearce (University of Lancaster) 9780745630052
RRP: $35.08$31.28Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in... -
Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory Evan Gottlieb 9781138853270
RRP: $72.13$63.43Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral to the study of literature. Organized thematically, the book provides historical introductions and uses a... -
Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831 Gerard Lee McKeever 9781474441681
RRP: $40.93$33.52This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context. With chapter case studies covering poetry, short fiction, drama and the novel, it examines a range of... -
Masculine Plural: Queer Classics, Sex, and Education by Jennifer Ingleheart 9780198819677
$231.86The Classics were core to the curriculum and ethos of the intensely homosocial Victorian and Edwardian public schools, yet ancient homosexuality and erotic pedagogy were problematic to the educational establishment, which expurgated classical texts with... -
Mrs Henry Wood by Mariaconcetta Costantini
RRP: $58.48$55.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224937Author Mariaconcetta CostantiniFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
Deleuze's Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment by Jeffrey Bell
RRP: $46.78$38.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474566Author Jeffrey BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Auden and the Muse of History by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb 9781503633926
RRP: $46.78$40.64Concentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in... -
William Godwin: A Biographical Study by George Woodcock 9780921689485
RRP: $29.23$24.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921689485Author George WoodcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books -
Poetry, Catastrophe, and Hope in the Vision of Isaiah by Prof Francis Landy 9780198856696
RRP: $234.00$211.24The book of Isaiah is one of the longest and strangest books of the Hebrew Bible, composed over several centuries and traversing the catastrophe that befell the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the 8th and 6th centuries BCE. Francis Landy's book tells... -
A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry: Bilingual Verse Culture in Early Modern England by Victoria Moul
RRP: $214.50$194.49Victoria Moul's groundbreaking study uncovers one of the most important features of early modern English poetry: its bilingualism. The first guide to a forgotten literary landscape, this book considers the vast quantities of poetry that were written and... -
David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine by Nicholas Royle 9781526173652
RRP: $165.75$118.11In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delves deeply into questions about the value of art, music... -
Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History Thijs Porck 9781783276349
RRP: $50.68$48.42First full-length study of the notion and concept of old age in early medieval England. How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested? This first full survey of the... -
Reading Beyond the Book: The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture by Danielle Fuller 9781138929937
RRP: $77.98$68.37Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the... -
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall 9780231197083
RRP: $228.15$177.31At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for... -
Deborah by Esther Kreitman 9780954054274
$29.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954054274Author Esther KreitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint David PaulPublisher David Paul -
On Literary Worlds by Eric Hayot
RRP: $63.36$38.40Although literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe it owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that characterize technological development. However this... -
Anarchism Is Not Enough by Laura Riding
RRP: $58.50$45.42Anarchism is Not Enough is a manifesto against systematic thinking, a difficult book by a famously difficult writer. For the scope of its critical imagination, it is the most radical work of Laura Riding's early period. This period extends from the end... -
Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies by Timothy Brennan
RRP: $46.78$40.64A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the "anticolonial century." The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from... -
Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China by David Der–wei Wang
RRP: $54.60$53.41Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping... -
The Writer as Migrant by Ha Jin
$23.67As a teenager during China's Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People's Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident of the United States, he won the National Book Award for his novel "Waiting", completing a trajectory... -
More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form Barry Atkins 9780719063657
RRP: $29.23$21.68The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of... -
Untimely Epic: Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica by Tom Phillips 9780198848561
$231.95Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica is a voyage across time as well as space. The Argonauts encounter monsters, nymphs, shepherds, and kings who represent earlier stages of the cosmos or human society; they are given glimpses into the future, and themselves...