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Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos by Massimo Bacigalupo
$216.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979008Author Massimo BacigalupoFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
Mourning Freud by Madelon Sprengnether
$62.99Mourning Freud analyses Freud's experiences and theories of mourning as the basis for exploring changes in psychoanalytic theories and practices over the course of the 20th century. The modernist Freud of the early 20th century has ceded to the... -
Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine by Amelia M. Glaser 9780674248458
RRP: $70.10$56.47A probing reading of leftist Jewish poets who, during the interwar period, drew on the trauma of pogroms to depict the suffering of other marginalized peoples.Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled... -
Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Martin McQuillan
$56.69Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The... -
Blue Jeans by Carolyn Purnell
RRP: $19.48$14.96Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Few clothing items are as ubiquitous or casual as blue jeans. Yet, their simplicity is deceptive. Blue jeans are nothing if not an exercise in... -
Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature Ruth Bienstock Anolik 9780786430147
RRP: $56.53$46.90The Gothic moment in literary history arose in the age of the Enlightenment, and the Gothic fascination with the unknown reflects the Enlightenment's response to the limits of reason. Traditionally, the emblem of the unknown that lurks in the Gothic is... -
James Joyce and Nationalism by Emer Nolan
RRP: $263.25$228.70James Joyce and Nationalism comprehensively revises our understanding of Joyce by re-examining his writing against Irish Nationalism. In this exciting and provocative book, Emer Nolan looks at the relationship between modernism and nationalism, tracing... -
A Girl with a Book by Nick Wood 9781910067000
RRP: $13.63$9.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067000Author Nick WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead Press -
The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE by Alexa Piqueux 9780192845542
RRP: $229.13$208.86Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. The study... -
Inhabited Spaces: Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place by Nicole Guenther Discenza
RRP: $95.55$79.72We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons conceived of themselves as living at the centre of a... -
Lancelot-Grail: 6. The Quest for the Holy Grail - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: $58.50$52.03The Quest of the Holy Grail adds a spiritual dimension to the adventures of Arthur's knights. Galahad replaces Lancelot as the central figure, though he appears and disappears so often that many of the knights are engaged in a quest to find him rather... -
The All-Sustaining Air: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, American, and Irish Poetry since 1900 by Michael O'Neill 9780199299287
$209.66Drawn from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, the title of this book suggests the cultural and literary persistence of the Romantic in the work of many British, American, and Irish poets since 1900. Allowing for and celebrating the multiple, even fractured... -
Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World by Maurice Ebileeni 9780815637608
$61.48Twenty percent of Palestinians-1.57 million Israeli citizens and over seven hundred thousand exiles and immigrants around the world-live in Europe and the Americas, participating daily in languages and cultures other than Arabic. The dispersion of... -
Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc by Gustaf Sobin 9780520253353
RRP: $58.50$53.41Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene - these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered throughout the... -
The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature by Christine Varnado
RRP: $46.78$40.64Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and what is "queer," as well as the political consequences of asking? In posing this question, The Shapes of... -
Utopia, Ltd.: Ideologies For Social Dreaming In England 1870-1900: Historical Materialism, Volume 7 by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: $58.50$38.77This book uncovers the historical preconditions for the explosive revival of utopian literature at the nineteenth-century fin de siecle, and excavates its ideological content. It marks a contribution not only to the literary and cultural history of the... -
Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960 by Amy Hungerford 9780691145754
RRP: $78.00$70.34How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern... -
The Plastic Turn by Ranjan Ghosh 9781501766978
RRP: $50.68$43.86The Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an innovative means of understanding the arts and literature. Ranjan Ghosh terms this approach the material-aesthetic and,... -
Unbinding Medea: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Classical Myth from Antiquity to the 21st Century by Heike Bartel
RRP: $77.98$69.15Unbinding Medea signals the very different answers to medea to provoke debate that transcends individual and discipline-specific approaches to the reception of her myth from antiquity to the twenty-first century and to present interdisciplinary... -
Drama: Between Poetry and Performance by W. B. Worthen 9781405153423
RRP: $62.30$56.82An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance. Draws on examples from... -
Dylan Thomas by John Goodby
$59.14A collection of essays on one of the twentieth century's most popular yet critically neglected authors, this book explores the full range of Thomas's work. It uses approaches - such as marxism, feminism and deconstruction - previously neglected by... -
Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834 by Moira Ferguson
RRP: $85.78$75.74First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the... -
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan In and Out of Time: A Children's Classic at 100 by Donna R. White 9780810854284
RRP: $146.25$129.29Celebrating 100 years of Peter Pan, this fourth volume in the Centennial Studies series explores the cultural contents of Barrie's creation and the continuing impact of Peter Pan on children's literature and popular culture today, especially focusing on... -
The Art of Fiction by James Salter
RRP: $33.05$23.17James Salter's exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing themes--youth, war, erotic love, marriage, life abroad,... -
Derrida and the Time of the Political by Suzanne Guerlac 9780822343721
RRP: $46.78$40.64An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derrida's death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the philosopher's political and ethical writings. Skepticism about the... -
The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist by Margaret C. Jones
$107.00In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated... -
The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor by Jennifer Rhee 9781517902988
RRP: $40.93$35.82Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor The word robot-introduced in Karel Capek's 1920 play R.U.R.-derives from rabota, the Czech word for servitude or forced labor. A century later, the... -
Metamorphoses of Ovid by Allen Mandelbaum
RRP: $44.83$37.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156001267Author Allen MandelbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 559Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
Kafka: In Light of the Accident by Howard Caygill
$78.23By challenging many of the assumptions, misguided presuppositions and even legends that have surrounded the legacy and reception of Franz Kafka's work during the 20th century, Howard Caygill provides us with a radical new way of reading Kafka. Kafka:... -
Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland by John McCourt 9780198729600
$209.66Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland is the first book-length study of the great Victorian novelist's relationship with Ireland, the country which became his second home and was the location of his first personal and... -
Metamorphoses III by Ovid
$40.89Metamorphoses is an epic poem but is very different from what we expect in an epic. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius... -
The Gray Book by Aris Fioretos 9780804735384
RRP: $42.88$37.42Generally considered the least lively and most bleak of casts, gray is the taint of vagueness and uncertainty. Marking the threshold region where luminous life seems suspended but death has not yet darkened the horizon, it belongs to an evasive and... -
Saudade: An Anthology of Fado Poetry by Mimi Khalvati 9781903080139
RRP: $16.58$13.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903080139Author Mimi KhalvatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPublisher Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation -
Shakespeare’s Influence on Karl Marx: The Shakespearean Roots of Marxism by Christian A. Smith 9780367559304
RRP: $77.98$68.37This volume presents a close reading of instances of Shakespearean quotations, allusions, imagery and rhetoric found in Karl Marx's collected works and letters, which provides evidence that Shakespeare's writings exerted a formative influence on Marx and... -
Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth: Hercules at the Crossroads Christopher Braider 9781138378841
RRP: $89.68$78.25In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition called the 'baroque'. For example, Annibale Carracci's portrayal of the Stoic legend of Hercules at the... -
Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642 by Marina Tarlinskaja
RRP: $77.98$68.37Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. The main aim of the book is to analyze the evolution of Renaissance dramatic poetry. Shakespeare is the... -
Scottish and International Modernisms: Relationships and Reconfigurations by Emma Dymock
RRP: $38.90$29.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841072Author Emma DymockFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Making Literature Now by Amy Hungerford
RRP: $38.98$34.20How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making... -
Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy by Sigrid Weigel
RRP: $48.73$42.26Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought. She does so by exploring Benjamin's dialectics of... -
A Critical Reader of the Romantic Grand Tour: Tristes Plaisirs by Chloe Chard 9780719044991
RRP: $58.50$41.55Chloe Chard assembles fascinating passages from late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century accounts of travel in Italy, by Northern Europeans, writing in English (or, in some cases, translated into English at the time); 'Tristes Plaisirs'...