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Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism Charles Bernheimer 9780801850059
RRP: $58.80$57.96In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful-and controversial-influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has profoundly influenced curriculum and scholarship in the humanities, particularly... -
Horace: Odes I: Carpe Diem by Horace 9780198721604
$155.76Horace is a great poet, much loved and imitated in the past, and in recent years much better understood as a result of the learned commentaries of Nisbet and Hubbard (1970, 1978). and Syndikus (1972, 1973). Yet today he is little read. This is partly... -
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919 by Katherine Mansfield 9780198126140
$139.65This volume, the second of four, includes her correspondence from early 1918 to the autumn of 1919. Her love for Middleton Murry, her response to the First World War, and her acceptance of the inevitable advance of tuberculosis, are handled with wit and... -
The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination by Mark Payne
RRP: $50.40$48.36How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? Mark Payne seeks to answer this question by exploring the relationship between humans and other animals in writings from antiquity to the present. Ranging from ancient Greek... -
The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy by Michael Robertson
RRP: $73.50$59.54The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale,... -
Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan by Marc Redfield
RRP: $56.68$49.73Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities. In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members... -
Oral Poetry: An Introduction by Paul Zumthor 9780816617258
RRP: $44.08$39.19This book aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral, or spoken, poetry. Paul Zumthor, a literary theorist, discusses the development of oral poetry from antiquity to the present in all its aspects: the forms... -
Thoughts and Things Leo Bersani 9780226206059
RRP: $54.60$52.19Leo Bersani's career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields-including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer theory. Throughout this new collection of essays that... -
Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function by Robert Weimann
RRP: $57.75$51.45Criticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from the theater, and the theater from society at large. 'It is only when Elizabethan society, theater, and... -
The Colonial Rise of the Novel by Firdous Azim
RRP: $79.78$70.10In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique of orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel. Whereas previous studies have emphasized the universality... -
A Short History of English Literature by Harry Blamires
RRP: $79.78$70.94This book guides through some six centuries of English literature, beginning with Chaucer's time, and goes on to analyse the background, interconnections and major achievements of individual writers in each period. It is useful to the student of English... -
Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres by Elizabeth English
RRP: $189.00$152.65A timely and original examination of lesbian modernism Reflects critically upon 30 years of lesbian modernist studies to expand existing meanings and uses of lesbian modernism Outlines novel ways in which lesbian modernism can continue to inform and... -
The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory Reader by Dennis G. Ioffe 9781936235452
RRP: $73.48$62.87The Russian avant-garde was a composite of antagonistic groups who wished to overthrow the basic aesthetics of classical realism. Modernism was the totality of these numerous aesthetic theories, which achieved a measure of coherence immediately after the... -
Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman 9781781681435
RRP: $44.08$41.94One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like Andre Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes... -
Loiterature by Ross Chambers 9780803263925
$71.46The fabric of the western literary tradition is not always predictable. In one wayward strand, waywardness itself is at work, delay becomes almost predictable, triviality is auspicious, and failure is cheerfully admired. This is loiterature. Loiterature... -
Terence: Andria by Sander M. Goldberg 9781350020627
$52.82Launching a much-needed new series discussing each comedy that survives from the ancient world, this volume is a vital companion to Terence's earliest comedy, Andria, highlighting its context, themes, staging and legacy. Ideal for students it assumes no... -
Readings of the Platform Sutra by Morten Schlutter
RRP: $58.80$45.78The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638-713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the... -
Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960 Ela Ela Gezen (Customer) 9781640140240
RRP: $168.00$159.62Uncovers the central role of Brecht reception in Turkish theater and Turkish-German literature, examining interactions between Turkish and German writers, texts, and contexts. Bertolt Brecht died in 1956, but his theory and practice has continued... -
On Tarrying Joseph Vogl 9780857427243
$21.08Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, decisiveness and withdrawal. Conceived as radical opposites, these terms structure the history of religion, philosophy and political theory,... -
Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders by Kevin M. F. Platt 9781501773709
RRP: $98.70$86.02Border Conditions combines history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to examine lives at the limits of contemporary Europe: Russian speakers living in Latvia. Since the fall of the USSR in 1991, Latvia's Russian speakers have balanced... -
Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry by Susanna L. Sacks 9781625347671
$62.58Simultaneously transnational and local, poetry in the twenty-first century is produced across digital networks, shaped through local communities, and evaluated on a global scale. It might start on social media, where a video of a poet circulates and goes... -
Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life by Derek Ryan
RRP: $50.38$45.89This book explores Woolf's writing alongside Deleuzian philosophy and new materialist theories of sexuality, animality, and posthuman life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In what ways has Woolf's modernism affected... -
Edward Said: A Critical Introduction Valerie Kennedy (Bilkent University, Turkey) 9780745620190
RRP: $37.78$34.21Edward Said is one of the foremost thinkers writing today. His work as a literary and cultural critic, a political commentator, and the champion of the cause of Palestinian rights has given him a unique position in western intellectual life. This new... -
Placing Charlotte Smith by Jacqueline M. Labbe 9781611462951
RRP: $226.80$198.89A lively and far-ranging interest in place(s), space(s), and situation characterizes the writing of the British Romantic-era author Charlotte Smith (1749-1806). Smith repeatedly questions what it means to be British in her literature. In an era of... -
Critical Discourse Analysis and Language Cognition by Kieran O'Halloran
RRP: $65.10$60.25An interdisciplinary study of issues of language manipulation, this book explores the interpretation stage of critical discourse analysis (CDA) for students in areas such as English language, media studies and applied linguistics, as well as... -
Theories of Africans: Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa by Christopher L. Miller
RRP: $63.00$61.43"Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."-Henry... -
Encyclopedia of Black Comics by Sheena C. Howard 9781682751015
RRP: $50.30$41.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682751015Author Sheena C. HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Fulcrum PublishingPublisher Fulcrum PublishingWeight(grams) 548g -
Modernism and Modernity in British Women's Magazines by Alice Wood
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women's magazines of the interwar period. Through extensive study of interwar Vogue (UK), Eve, Good Housekeeping (UK), and Harper's Bazaar... -
Anglo-Saxon Conversations - The Colloquies of Aelfric Bata by Scott Gwara
$190.26Translation (and text) of colloquies gives vivid picture of Anglo-Saxon monastic education. The monk Aelfric Bata is the only identifiable graduate of the school of Aelfric `Grammaticus', the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon homilist whose Grammar, Glossary... -
Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power by Nick Vaughan-Williams
RRP: $52.48$48.45This book, newly available in paperback, presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the... -
Titus Andronicus: Critical Essays Philip Kolin 9781138892354
RRP: $77.68$69.68Originally published in 1995. In three parts - introduction, criticism and reviews - this volume examines the goriest of Shakespeare's works. The editor's exhaustive introduction runs through the pattern of changing scholarship and commentary,... -
Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern Karen L. Edwards 9781138093850
RRP: $79.78$70.10Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of... -
The Beginning of Terror: A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Life and Work by David Kleinbard
RRP: $52.48$45.51The insights here are of such depth, and contain such beauty in them, that time and again the reader must pause for breath. At last Rilke has met a critic whose insight, courage, and humanity are worthy of his life and work." Leslie Epstein Director,... -
G.W.M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics, and the Press by Anne Humpherys 9780367887964
RRP: $83.98$73.63G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian era that until now has been largely unacknowledged. A prolific novelist whose work had a massive circulation, and an influential journalist and editor, he was a man of contradictions in... -
Sons of Saviors: The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture by Rebekka Voß 9781512824322
RRP: $113.40$97.48Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are a legendary people who populated a shared Jewish-Christian... -
Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present by Ranjana Khanna
RRP: $52.48$45.51Algeria Cuts discusses the figure of woman, both under colonial rule in Algeria and within the postcolonial independent nation-state. It is an interdisciplinary project that spans fine art, film, colonial and legal policy, manifestos, prose fiction, and... -
The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism: Volume 77 by Paola Mayer
RRP: $75.60$67.16Enlightenment - both the phenomenon specific to the eighteenth century and the continuing trend in Western thought - is an attempt to dispel ignorance, achieve mastery of a potentially hostile environment, and contain fear of the unknown by promoting... -
The Language War by Robin Tolmach Lakoff
RRP: $52.50$41.14Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an... -
Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender by Shirley Nelson Garner
RRP: $44.08$38.58". . . an important volume for scholar and student alike, and a tribute to the enduring contributions of its authors." -Renaissance Quarterly"These thought-provoking essays run the gamut of feminist criticism on tragedy." -Shakespeare Quarterly"Highly... -
Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory by Jyotsna G. Singh 9781408185544
$69.13Now available in paperback, Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory is an up-to-date guide to contemporary debates in postcolonial studies and how these shape our understanding of Shakespeare's politics and poetics. Taking a historical perspective, it covers...