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The Sea in the Greek Imagination by Marie-Claire Beaulieu
RRP: $147.00$128.48The sea is omnipresent in Greek life. Visible from nearly everywhere, the sea represents the life and livelihood of many who dwell on the islands and coastal areas of the Mediterranean, and it has been so since long ago-the sea loomed large in the... -
The Problem of Political Obligation by Noel O'Sullivan
RRP: $71.38$63.00First published in 1987. This study is an attempt to distinguish the problem of political obligation as it was formulated in the ancient world from the problem as it has presented itself in the modern world, and assesses the idealist achievement in the... -
Art, Survival and So Forth: The Poetry of Charles Bukowski by Jules Smith 9781903110034
RRP: $25.10$17.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110034Author Jules SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball PressWeight(grams) 431g -
The Literary Theory Toolkit: A Compendium of Concepts and Methods Herman Rapaport (Wake Forest University, USA) 9781405170475
RRP: $41.90$37.11The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all... -
Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities by Jeremy Chow 9781684484287
RRP: $69.30$60.54This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore... -
Mixed-Race Superheroes by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins
RRP: $65.10$57.46American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority,... -
Henry VIII`s Divorce - Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press by Professor J. Christopher Warner
$190.26A close examination of the rivalry between two printing presses at the time of the divorce crisis shows how the new learning could be employed to influence even the king himself. During the period of Henry VIII's divorce crisis, a political and... -
Kreutzer Sonata Variations: Lev Tolstoy's Novella and Counterstories by Sofiya Tolstaya and Lev Lvovich Tolstoy by Michael R. Katz
RRP: $109.20$105.23A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Lev Tolstoy's controversial novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the first... -
Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze by Llewellyn Brown
RRP: $92.40$75.75Forming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring element of Samuel Becketts creation. And yet it takes the form of a strangely impersonal visual dimension testifying to the absence of an original exchange of gazes capable of founding... -
Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance by Pascale Aebischer
RRP: $48.28$43.39Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance examines how rapid changes in performance technologies affect modes of spectatorship for early modern drama. It argues that seemingly disparate developments - such as the revival of early... -
Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction by Matthew Hart
RRP: $52.50$41.14The future of fiction is neither global nor national. Instead, Matthew Hart argues, it is trending extraterritorial. Extraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but enhance state power. They cut across geography and history but do not point... -
Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001 by David L. Pike
RRP: $62.98$56.91In Metropolis on the Styx, David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed... -
Haptic Modernism: Touch and the Tactile in Modernist Writing by Dr. Abbie Garrington
RRP: $50.38$40.97This book opens up the field of literary studies to the promise of a haptic oriented analysis. This book contends that the haptic sense - combining touch, kinaesthesis and proprioception - was first fully conceptualised and explored in the modernist... -
The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry, 1914-1928 Willard Bohn 9780226063256
RRP: $58.80$57.52In this, the only full-length study of the visual poetry of the early twentieth century, Willard Bohn expertly illuminates the works of Apollinaire, Josep-Maria Junow, Guillermo de Torre, and others. His fascinating aesthetic insights bring to life this... -
Greek Comedy and Embodied Scholarly Discourse by Anna A. Novokhatko 9783111080932
RRP: $204.75$189.29Comedy created a joyful mode of perceiving rhetoric, grammar, and literary criticism through the somatic senses of the author, the characters, the actors and the spectators. This was due to generic peculiarities including the omnivore mirroring of... -
We Have Our Voice: Selected Poems of Reesom Haile by Reesom Haile 9781569021330
RRP: $35.60$24.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569021330Author Reesom HaileFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 187g -
Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays by Sarah Beckwith
RRP: $58.80$57.52In "Signifying God" Sarah Beckwith explores the most lavish, long-lasting, and complex form of collective theatrical enterprise in English history: the York Corpus Christi plays. First staged as early as 1376, the plays were performed annually until the... -
Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Robert Macfarlane 9780199296507
RRP: $193.20$191.23'"Originality" is only plagiarizing from a great many', remarked Rupert Brooke, stealing the line from Voltaire. Questions of originality, and accusations of plagiarism, are as old as literature, but different literary cultures have interpreted the... -
Heroic Legends of the North: An Introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich Cycles by Edward R. Haymes
RRP: $67.18$59.49Originally published in 1996, this book is a study of two of the central themes of medieval German mythology, the Dietrich and Nibelung legends. It traces its two legendary topics form their historical roots during the last centuries of the Roman Empire... -
After 1945: Latency as Origin of the Present by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
RRP: $67.20$59.70What is it the legacy that humankind has been living with since 1945? We were once convinced that time was the agent of change. But in the past decade or two, our experience of time has been transformed. Technology preserves and inundates us with the... -
Thinking Through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric by Marjorie Levinson 9780198810315
$196.92Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric pursues two goals. The title signals the contribution to debates about reading. Do we think 'through' - 'by means of', 'with'- poems, sympathetically elaborating their surfaces? Is this compatible... -
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone
RRP: $157.50$142.25This book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf's engagement with science. It demonstrates that science is integral to the construction of identity in Woolf's novels of the 1930s and 1940s, and identifies a little-explored source for Woolf's scientific... -
The French Balades by John Gower
RRP: $28.35$23.96Gower's imaginative French poetry is now available in a new edition with facing page translation, annotations, and introduction. Gower's Traitie employs the French poetic form of balade, typically used for courtly verses, to avow instead the virtues of... -
Scandinavian Crime Fiction by Paula Arvas 9780708323304
RRP: $41.98$32.49Crime writers from the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) have become some of the most widely read authors of the 1990s and 2000s. Yet books by such authors as Henning Mankell, Liza Marklund, Karin Fossum, and Anne Holt have... -
A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel by Bernard Bergonzi 9780199291021
$116.11Bernard Bergonzi has been reading Graham Greene for many years; he still possesses the original edition of The End of the Affair that he bought when it was published in 1951. After so much recent attention to Greene's life he believes it is time to... -
Picturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century by Monica Cure
RRP: $41.98$36.83The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium Literature has "died" many times-this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to this unlikely source to shed light on our... -
In Praise of Literature Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9781509502691
RRP: $31.48$28.52In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). While many... -
Temporary Monuments: Work by Rosemary Mayer, 1977-1982 by Rosemary Mayer 9781940190211
RRP: $56.70$37.78Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014) was a prolific artist, writer, and critic, who entered the New York art scene in the late 1960s. By the early 1970s, she became known both for her large-scale fabric sculptures-inspired by the lives of historical women-and her... -
A History of Irish Women's Poetry by Ailbhe Darcy
$187.51A History of Irish Women's Poetry is a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women's poetry from earliest times to the present day. It reads Irish women's poetry through many prisms - mythology, gender, history, the nation - and most... -
Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830 by James Uden 9780190910273
RRP: $161.70$124.45Gothic literature imagines the return of ghosts from the past. But what about the ghosts of the classical past? Spectres of Antiquity is the first full-length study to describe the relationship between Greek and Roman culture and the Gothic novels,... -
The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures by Harris Feinsod 9780190080990
RRP: $74.53$56.07The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s... -
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $62.98$48.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156008723Author Gianni GuadalupiFormat PaperbackPage Count 776Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)... -
Le Maya Q'atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala by Emil' Keme
RRP: $41.98$36.83Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration In 1954, Guatemala suffered a coup d'etat, resulting in a decades-long civil war. During this period, Indigenous Mayans... -
The Literary and Historical Legacy of Iolo Morganwg,1826-1926 by Marion Loffler
RRP: $41.98$32.82Charts 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 Near and Distant God: Poetry, Idealism and Religious Thought from Holderlin to Eliot by Ian Cooper
RRP: $83.98$73.63This 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 Reader's Guide to Yeats's A Vision Neil Mann 9781942954620
$233.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954620Author Neil MannFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
Thinking in Henry James by Sharon Cameron 9780226092317
RRP: $58.80$57.52Thinking 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... -
The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End: By Anthony Burgess by Ákos Farkas
RRP: $168.00$124.24First published in 1974, this novel is a semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971. This is the end of Enderby, Anthony Burgess's finest comic... -
American Drama of the Twentieth Century by Gerald M. Berkowitz 9780582016019
RRP: $115.48$111.05In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres... -
Angela Carter and Surrealism: 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic' by Anna Watz
RRP: $92.38$80.72In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xaviere Gauthier's ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surrealisme et sexualite (1971). Although the translation was never published, the project at once confirmed and consolidated Carter's...