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Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry by Wendy Beth Hyman 9780198837510
€97.89Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions offer no compliments... -
Virginia Woolf's Essayism by Randi Saloman
RRP: €28.55€26.00This book explores the way Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel. The focus of this study is on Virginia Woolf's vast output of essays and their relation to her fiction. Randi Saloman shows that it was by... -
The Good of the Novel by Liam McIlvanney
RRP: €15.46€10.19There remains at work - in both Britain and America - a group of literary journalists and academics committed to the evaluative criticism of fiction, to a criticism that approaches novels as novels. The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially... -
Christians in Conversation: A Guide to Late Antique Dialogues in Greek and Syriac by Alberto Rigolio
RRP: €114.24€73.60This book addresses a particular and little-known form of writing, the prose dialogue, during the Late Antique period, when Christian authors adopted and transformed the dialogue form to suit the new needs of religious debate. Connected to, but departing... -
Riddles at Work in the Early Medieval Tradition: Words, Ideas, Interactions by Megan Cavell
RRP: €101.15€71.60Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval riddle tradition. The book presents a wide range of traditional and experimental methodologies. The... -
The Stylistic Development of Keats Walter Jackson Bate 9781138990081
RRP: €23.79€21.05This study, first published in 1945, gives a precise description of the unfolding of a great poet's craftsmanship and suggests alignments of the technical progression with the changes of the mind.Metrical analysis is given in order to throw light on... -
On the Edge of the Holocaust - The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture by Edna Aizenberg
RRP: €38.08€37.02In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of... -
Elizabeth Gaskell by Dr. Patsy Stoneman 9780719074479
RRP: €23.79€21.21This pioneering study, described as 'a model of feminist criticism' (The Year's Work in English Studies) on first publication, revealed Gaskell as an important social analyst who deliberately challenged the Victorian disjunction between public and... -
Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace': Volume 5 by Gill Plain
RRP: €107.10€98.02A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation This new study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged... -
Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial by Sarah D. Wald
RRP: €36.89€32.56The whiteness of mainstream environmentalism often fails to account for the richness and variety of Latinx environmental thought. Building on insights of environmental justice scholarship as well as critical race and ethnic studies, the editors and... -
Inside the Critics' Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times by Phillipa K. Chong
RRP: €41.65€33.01An inside look at the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment and writing of reviews to why critics think we should listen to what they have to sayTaking readers behind the scenes in the world of fiction reviewing, Inside the Critics' Circle... -
Echoes of Surrealism: Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945-1990 by Gerrit-Jan Berendse 9781800730687
RRP: €117.81€95.76For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by the Stasi. Echoes of Surrealism surveys the ways in which a... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Jane Couchman
RRP: €52.35€46.93Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a... -
The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 by James Archeson
RRP: €34.50€32.02The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It... -
Six Galician Poets by Manuela Palacios 9781910345450
RRP: €14.27€9.87Distinctive and innovatory, contemporary Galician poetry has a strong presence on the literary scene of Spain, continuing a centuries-old unbroken line of literary creation in the language of the region. In the thirteenth anthology in this series, we are... -
Modernism, Science, and Technology by Mark S. Morrisson
€35.89From quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass media of film and radio, the early 20th century was a period of intense scientific and technological change. Modernism,... -
The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing by Paul Stephens 9780816694419
RRP: €26.17€24.01Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically... -
New Historical Literary Study: Essays on Reproducing Texts, Representing History by Jeffrey N. Cox
RRP: €83.30€64.62This volume, growing out of the celebrated turn toward history in literary criticism, showcases some of the best new historical work being done today in textual theory, literary history, and cultural criticism. The collection brings together for the... -
After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature by Neil Corcoran 9780192892317
€40.73Irish literature after Yeats and Joyce, from the 1920s onwards, includes texts which have been the subject of much contention. For a start how should Irish literature be defined: as works which have been written in Irish or as works written in Englsih by... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction by Stacey Olster
RRP: €23.79€20.38The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture by Celia Marshik
RRP: €28.55€24.24Modernism emerged alongside radical challenges to traditional belief systems, the reorganization of public and private spheres, new modes of visual display, and innovations in recreation and entertainment. This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the... -
Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry by Francis Cairns
RRP: €20.83€20.22Original in conception and powerful in scope, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry remains one of the most important books on early Greek, Hellenistic and Roman poetry in a generation. First published in the philological climate of the early... -
Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature by Kevin Pelletier 9780820339481
€56.60In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be... -
How Proust Can Change Your Life by De Botton Alain
RRP: €20.23€11.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679779155Author Alain De BottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Early Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art by Willard Bohn
RRP: €49.97€43.73This book focuses on avant-garde literature and art in Europe and America during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It examines five movements that shaped our response to the demands of the modern age and contributed to the creation of a modern... -
La Dentelliere by Pascal Laine
RRP: €45.21€39.72The full French text of Laine's novel is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.Book InformationISBN 9780415040013Author Pascal LaineFormat PaperbackPage... -
Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics by Ben Glaser
RRP: €36.30€32.57Despite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification.In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as... -
Brahma in the West: William Blake and the Oriental Renaissance by David Weir
RRP: €29.49€25.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791458181Author David WeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Literary Criticism: A New History by Gary E. Day
RRP: €33.31€30.95A THE Book of the Week Did you know that Aristotle thought the best tragedies were those that ended happily? Or that the first mention of the motor car in literature may have been in 1791 in Boswell's Life of Johnson? Or that it was not unknown in the... -
The Epigrams of Sir John Harington by Gerard Kilroy 9781138376144
RRP: €57.11€49.75Many scholars have been calling for a new edition of Sir John Harington's Epigrams. Gerard Kilroy, using the three manuscripts arranged and revised by the author, offers the first complete text in print of Harington's four hundred Epigrams, uncovers... -
When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day by Christian Livermore
RRP: €95.20€91.17A survey of the motif of the revenant, showing how medieval themes and motifs persist today. The proliferation of books and films about the "undead", those literally returning from the grave, in modern popular culture has been commented on as a recent... -
The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis by Julia Kristeva 9780231109970
RRP: €33.32€25.94Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language... -
Chaucer and the Ethics of Time by Gillian Adler
RRP: €83.30€67.32Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time than in the mechanics of the medieval clock. Chaucer and the Ethics of Time examines Chaucer's... -
The EneadosGavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid.: Volume I: Introduction and Commentary Priscilla Bawcutt 9781897976425
RRP: €71.40€68.48First volume in a new edition of Douglas's "Eneados", providing a comprehensive introduction and commentary. Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any... -
The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature by Herschel Farbman 9780823228669
RRP: €28.55€24.80"I sleep, but my heart wakes," says the Song of Songs. "The other night" names the sleepless night we spend in dreams. From The Interpretation of Dreams to Finnegans Wake, many of the great writing projects of the first half of the twentieth century... -
Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes and Archetypes Pierre Brunel 9781138936010
RRP: €103.52€91.08First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essays, from Abraham to Zoroaster. Its coverage is international and draws on legends from prehistory to the... -
The Body in Early Modern Italy by Julia L. Hairston
RRP: €74.38€65.77Human bodies have been represented and defined in various ways across different cultures and historical periods. As an object of interpretation and site of social interaction, the body has throughout history attracted more attention than perhaps any... -
Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations by Simon During 9780823242559
RRP: €29.74€25.79This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it... -
Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Clemoes
RRP: €39.26€35.75Place-names, charters, coins and manuscripts are among the forms of evidence studied in this second volume. The topics range from the course of English settlement in the south-east to the power and influence of a leading aristocratic family in the tenth... -
'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers by Penelope Freedman 9781350118683
RRP: €65.45€37.20Romeo and Juliet always use 'thou' to each other, but they are the only pair of lovers in Shakespeare to do this. Why? All the women in Richard III address Richard as 'thou', but no man ever does. Why? When characters address the dead, they use 'thou' -...