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Parzival - With Titurel and the Love Lyrics by Wolfram Von Eschenbach
RRP: £95.00£84.75Wolfram's Parzival continues to inspire and influence, in modern times works as diverse as Wagner's Parsifal and Lohengrin, Franz Kafka's The Castle, Terry Gilliam's film The Fisher King, and Umberto Eco's Baudolino. Vast in its scope, incomparably... -
Douglas Coupland by Andrew Tate 9780719076619
RRP: £25.00£22.03This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland's career, from Generation X: Tales for an... -
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson by Greg Clingham
RRP: £26.99£22.80The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English... -
The French Balades by John Gower
RRP: £12.50£10.64Gower'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... -
A Clockwork Orange: A Norton Critical Edition by Anthony Burgess 9780393928099
£20.72A terrifying tale about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom, A Clockwork Orange became an instant classic when it was published in 1962 and has remained so ever since. Anthony Burgess takes us on a journey to a nightmarish future where... -
Shakespeare's Workplace: Essays on Shakespearean Theatre by Andrew Gurr
RRP: £22.99£20.66Shakespeare was easily the most inventive writer using the English language. His plays give us intricacies of vocabulary and usage that have enriched us immeasurably. This book provides a series of analytical essays on the marginalia relating to the... -
Shakespeare and Marx by Gabriel Egan 9780199249923
£31.27Marxist cultural theory underlies much teaching and research in university departments of literature and has played a crucial role in the development of recent theoretical work. Feminism, New Historicism, cultural materialism, postcolonial theory, and... -
The Findern Manuscript: A New Edition of the Unique Poems Joanna M. Martin 9781837645022
RRP: £24.99£22.41The Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library, Ff.1.6): A New Edition of the Unique Poems is the first critical edition of the thirty-four unique and unattributed Middle English poems contained in Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.1.6. This... -
Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan by Takeshi Watanabe
RRP: £54.95£44.06Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a good yarn. The health of the community was at stake. Flowering... -
Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England by the late Kevin Sharpe 9780199698233
RRP: £53.00£52.39Biography appears to thrive as never before; and there clearly remains a broad readership for literary biography. But the methods and approaches of recent criticism which have contributed rich insights and asked new questions about the ways in which we... -
The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages by Ann W. Astell 9780801482670
RRP: £31.00£27.36Included among the sacred books of Judaism and Christianity alike, the Song of Songs does not mention God at all; on the surface it is a lyrical exchange between unnamed lovers who articulate the range of emotions associated with sexual love. Ann W... -
The Mythology of Imperialism: A Revolutionary Critique of British Literature and Society in the Modern Age by Jonah Raskin
RRP: £15.95£13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583671863Author Jonah RaskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis by Sally Robinson 9780231112932
RRP: £28.00£21.80White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike,... -
Literature and Culture in Modern Britain: Volume Three: 1956 - 1999 by Clive Bloom 9780582075528
RRP: £35.99£35.22British culture has changed almost beyond recognition since 1956. Angry young men have been displaced by Yuppies, Elvis by the Spice Girls, and meat and two veg by continental cuisine. What is more, as the death of Diana, Princess of Wales showed, the... -
Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics by Frederik Byrn Kohlert 9780813592251
RRP: £29.99£28.17Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Kohlert examines the genre's potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially... -
An Introduction to Poetic Forms by Patrick Gill
RRP: £33.99£30.00An Introduction to Poetic Forms offers specimen discussions of poems through the lens of form. While each of its chapters does provide a standard definition of the form in question in its opening paragraphs, their main objective is to provide readings of... -
Close Reading the Anthropocene by Helena Feder
RRP: £36.99£32.53Reading poetry and prose, images and art, literary and critical theory, science and cultural studies, Close Reading the Anthropocene explores the question of meaning, its importance and immanent potential for loss, in the new geological epoch of the... -
One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton by James Grantham Turner 9780198182498
£103.05This is an acclaimed study of the understanding of sex and gender in the early modern period, examining in particular Milton's interventions in these debates. Focusing on contemporary readings of the Eden-myth in Genesis, the book shows that the... -
Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675-1725 by Kathryn King 9780198187028
£81.11Jane Barker (1652-1732), English poet and novelist, is one of the most important women writers to enter the early modern literary marketplace. This book, the first full-length study of her writing career, draws upon archival sources to reconstruct... -
Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr by Dora Osborne 9780367601935
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book offers the first full-length study of W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the traumatic traces of National Socialism. It examines the different ways in which the traces of a traumatic past mark their narratives... -
Fifty Key Literary Theorists by Richard J. Lane
RRP: £25.99£22.38Covering over a century's worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this is a unique guide to the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on literary studies.Featuring theorists such as Judith Butler, Jacques... -
Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
RRP: £30.00£27.35From a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best-loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as tumultuous as any he created in his teeming novels of life in Victorian England... -
Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education by Michael W. Champion 9780198869269
RRP: £97.00£87.83Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education approaches fundamental questions about the role and function of education in late antiquity through a detailed study of the thought of Dorotheus of Gaza, a sixth-century Palestinian monk. It illumines the thought... -
Poetry Then and Now: Approaches to pre-twentieth century poetry Sheila Hales 9780435140434
£21.93This anthology contains a range of pre-20th-century and contemporary poems for Key Stage 3 students. Old and modern poems are juxtaposed to give students a route into pre-20th-century poetry. Activities such as group discussion and role play help make... -
Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation by David James
RRP: £89.00£71.06Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear at first sight to foil solace altogether. Illuminating... -
Literature and Emotion by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: £37.99£33.38Literature and Emotion not only provides a defining overview of the field but also engages with emerging trends. Answering key questions such as 'What is emotion?' and 'Why emotion and literature today?,' Patrick Colm Hogan presents a clear and... -
Adult Comics by Roger Sabin
RRP: £37.99£33.38In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusement for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention.Adult comics are part of... -
Irish Women's Writing, 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty Anna Pilz 9781526127112
RRP: £19.99£14.52Irish women writers entered the British and international publishing scene in unprecedented numbers in the period between 1878 and 1922. Literary history is only now beginning to give them the attention they deserve for their contributions to the... -
Travels into Spain by Marie-catherine Le Jumel De Bar
RRP: £44.00£42.27A masterpiece of ethnographic observation on seventeenth-century Spain. While mysteries remain in her biography, Madame d'Aulnoy's tremendous literary talent is finally being rediscovered. Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, baronne d'Aulnoy... -
Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays by Sarah Beckwith
RRP: £28.00£27.39In "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... -
Elizabeth Bishop in Context by Angus Cleghorn
RRP: £88.99£85.35Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognised as one of the twentieth century's most original writers. Consisting of thirty-five ground-breaking essays by an international team of authors, including biographers, literary critics, poets and translators,... -
Correspondence 1930-1940 Gretel Adorno 9780745636696
RRP: £60.00£52.35'We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.' So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his... -
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky 9781478025382
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Fugitive Time, Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world. Through the lens of time, he charts the sensations and coursing thoughts that accompany desires for... -
A Fire of Lilies: Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
£67.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283292Author Ahmad Karimi-HakkakFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
Barbara Wright: Translation as Art by Debra Kelly
RRP: £28.99£19.24Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature." Wright introduced to an English-speaking readership and audience some of the... -
The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll 9781137505460
£49.49Lewis Carroll is one of the world's best-loved writers. His immortal Wonderland and delightful nonsense verses have enchanted generations of children and adults alike. The wit and imagination, the wisdom, sense of absurdity and sheer fun which fill his... -
The Concept of Modernism by Astradur Eysteinsson
RRP: £26.99£23.32The term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a product of... -
Short Voyages to the Land of the People by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: £21.99£19.19This book analyzes a range of texts that seek, in different ways, to represent "the people." Ranciere approaches these texts as travel narratives or ethnographies whose authors have traveled not to distant or exotic lands but across class lines. In this... -
An Analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America Elizabeth Morrow 9781912127542
RRP: £6.50£6.11Alexis de Tocqueville's 1838 Democracy in America is a classic of political theory - and of the problem-solving skills central to putting forward political ideas. Problem-solving has several aspects: identifying problems, finding methodologies to deal... -
Swift in Print: Published Texts in Dublin and London, 1691-1765 by Valerie Rumbold
RRP: £90.00£75.52Presenting a fresh perspective on one of the most celebrated print canons in literary history, Valerie Rumbold explores the expressive force of print context, format, typography, ornament and paratext encountered by early readers of Jonathan Swift. By...