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Emergent Worlds: Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture by Edward Sugden 9781479889266
RRP: $48.73$42.26Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and time Emergent Worlds re-locates nineteenth-century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that... -
The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance by Drew Daniel
$64.27This book considers melancholy as an "assemblage," as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English... -
Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition: Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb by Valerie Purton 9781783083091
RRP: $48.75$46.37'Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition' is a timely study of the 'sentimental' in Dickens's novels, which places them in the context of the tradition of Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan and Lamb. This study re-evaluates Dickens's... -
The Literary and Historical Legacy of Iolo Morganwg,1826-1926 by Marion Loffler
RRP: $38.98$30.48Charts the public reception and criticism of Iolo Morganwg's writings, the development of his eisteddfod and gorsedd ideas. This volume contains extended selections of his writings, which intend to give the reader the opportunity to study texts of this... -
The Value of James Joyce by Margot Norris 9781107583160
RRP: $46.78$39.72Margot Norris' The Value of James Joyce explores the writings of James Joyce from his early poetry and short stories to his final avant-garde work, Finnegans Wake. His works include some of the most difficult and challenging texts in the English literary... -
The Three Latkes by Eric A Kimmel
RRP: $13.63$10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541588929Author Eric A. KimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Kar-Ben PublishingPublisher Lerner Publishing GroupDimensions(mm) 222mm * 266mm * 6mm -
Archipelagic Modernism: Literature in the Irish and British Isles, 1890-1970 by John Brannigan
RRP: $56.53$52.47This book offers a new archipelagic history of 20th-century literature in Britain and Ireland. Archipelagic Modernism examines the anglophone literatures of the archipelago from 1890 to 1970 for what they tell us about changing identities, geographies,... -
Wordsworth's Revisitings by Stephen Gill 9780199687985
RRP: $40.93$40.70Nothing was more important to Wordsworth than tracing the evidence that affinities had been preserved between all the stages of the life of man. In this beautifully written and thoughtful book Wordsworth's biographer and editor Stephen Gill explores the... -
The Plain Speaker: The Key Essays William Hazlitt 9780631210573
RRP: $79.85$69.99In this selection from the two-volume Plain Speaker, Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address some of the most important critical issues both in romantic studies today and the poetics of prose. Provides the only edition of... -
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch by Philip Yampolsky 9780231159579
RRP: $58.50$45.42Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son... -
The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History by Walter Benn Michaels 9780691126180
RRP: $54.60$42.51The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from "Against Theory" to Our America--it anatomizes what's... -
Fowles's "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by William Stephenson 9780826490094
$47.01John Fowles' 1969 novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman" has become a modern classic but it is a complex novel and can be daunting to study. This accessible guide offers detailed readings of the text as well as accounts of Fowles' influences and the... -
Cultures of Populism: Institutions, Practices and Resistance by Merle A. Williams 9780367715632
RRP: $77.98$69.15The rapid global spread of populism has become an arresting and often disturbing phenomenon in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays explores the complex histories and diverse geographies of populist activity,... -
Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction by Mary M McGlynn 9780815637868
$66.20While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors. In Broken Irelands, McGlynn examines Irish... -
Culture and Liberation: Exile Writings, 1966-1985 by Alex La Guma
RRP: $68.23$59.55One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Persecuted and imprisoned by the South African regime in the... -
Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures by Leona Toker
RRP: $31.18$27.77Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction... -
Pleasure and the Arts: Enjoying Literature, Painting, and Music by Christopher Butler 9780199288724
$84.34How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Pleasure and the Arts offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional... -
Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars by Brooks Landon
RRP: $72.13$65.99First published in 2003. Brooks Landon analyses science fiction not as a set of rules for writers, but as a set of expectations for readers. He presents science fiction as a social phenomenon that moves beyond literary experience through a sense of... -
Metafiction by Mark Currie 9780582212923
$93.29Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. It comprises two elements: firstly cause, the increasing interpenetration of professional... -
The Complete Beyond the Fringe by Alan Bennett
RRP: $19.48$17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413773685Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 185g -
Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present by Angelyn Mitchell
RRP: $54.58$47.85Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into... -
Allegories of the Anthropocene by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey 9781478004103
RRP: $165.75$143.93In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature... -
Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy by Geraldine Heng 9780231125277
RRP: $58.50$46.20Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and... -
Interpreting Hebrew Poetry by David L. Petersen
$25.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800626259Author David L. PetersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
Literary Aesthetics: A Reader Alan Singer (Temple University) 9780631208693
RRP: $91.55$79.83It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aesthetic. This anthology works to reassert the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into... -
The Essential Prose Of John Milton by John Milton
RRP: $44.85$34.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983722Author John MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 436g -
The Daniel Clowes Reader: Ghost World, Nine Short Stories, and Critical Materials - Comics About Art, Adolescence, and Real Life by Ken Parille 9781606995891
RRP: $68.25$44.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995891Author Ken ParilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 829g -
Minds on Stage: Greek Tragedy and Cognition by Felix Budelmann 9780192888938
RRP: $161.85$146.91Greek tragedy parades, tests, stimulates, and upends human cognition. Characters plot deception, try to fathom elusive gods, and fail to recognise loved ones. Spectators observe the characters' cognitive limitations and contemplate their own, grapple... -
Wandering Poets and Other Essays on Late Greek Literature and Philosophy by Alan Cameron 9780190268947
$184.84This book presents a radically revised version of some of the most important and innovative articles published by Alan Cameron in the field of late antique Greek poetry and philosophy. Much new material has been added to the account of the "Wandering... -
The Book of Virtues: 30th Anniversary Edition by William J Bennett
RRP: $68.25$37.44Help your children develop moral character with this updated, 30th anniversary edition of the perennial classic The Book of Virtues.Almost 3 million copies of the Book of Virtues have been sold since it was published in 1993. It is one of the most... -
Transnational Literature: The Basics by Paul Jay
RRP: $37.03$32.90Transnational Literature: The Basics provides an indispensable overview of this important new field of study and the literature it explores. It concisely describes the various ways in which literature can be understood as being "transnational," explains... -
Alice Munro Everlasting: Essays on Her Works II by J R Tim Struthers
RRP: $52.55$39.23This rich volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, "Returning to the Source: Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty," followed by a major new essay by one of Munro's most long-standing and... -
Alice Munro Country: Essays on Her Works I by J R Tim Struthers
RRP: $52.55$37.75This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir, "Alice Munro: Not Bad Short Story Writer"; by Munro's renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction writer Jack Hodgins, playwright Judith... -
Green Suns and Faerie: Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien by Verlyn Flieger 9781606350942
RRP: $64.25$36.68A major contribution to the growing body of Tolkien scholarship With the release of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and forthcoming film version of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien's popularity has never been higher. In Green Suns and... -
Y Dychymyg Ol-Fodern: Agweddau ar ffuglen fer Mihangel Morgan by Rhiannon Marks 9781786835901
RRP: $38.98$29.70Cyfrol arbrofol o feirniadaeth greadigol yw hon, sy'n cynnig golwg ffres ar ffuglen fer y llenor nodedig Mihangel Morgan (1955-). Hon yw'r astudiaeth estynedig gyntaf o'i waith, a rhoddir sylw penodol i'r wyth cyfrol o ffuglen fer a gyhoeddodd rhwng 1992... -
Samuel Beckett in Confinement by Dr James Little
$213.88Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre - from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Drawing on spatial theory and new archival research, Beckett in... -
Transports: Travel, Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 by Chloe Chard 9780300063820
RRP: $87.75$86.21In this rich exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history, and anthropology investigate the experiences of travelers and their ways of understanding and... -
Race in American Science Fiction by Isiah Lavender
RRP: $38.98$36.02Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic... -
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies: Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels and Popular Culture by Yvonne Griggs
$64.86From David Lean's big screen Great Expectations to Alejandro Amenabar's reinvention of The Turn of the Screw as The Others, adaptations of literary classics are a constant feature of popular culture today. The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation... -
Five Plays by Langston Hughes by Webster Smalley
RRP: $33.13$29.39"His pictures of Harlem life are as fresh today as they were when they were first set down . . . " -Long Beach Press-TelegraphBook InformationISBN 9780253201218Author Webster SmalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Indiana University PressPublisher...