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The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn Daniel Anlezark 9781843842033
RRP: $136.50$128.77First modern edition, with facing translation, of two of the most mysterious Old English texts extant. The dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, found in MSS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 422 and 41, are some of the most complex Old English texts to... -
On Whitman by C. K. Williams 9780691176109
RRP: $33.58$27.53In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it--to explore why Whitman's epic... -
Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time by Wai-chee Dimock 9780691114507
RRP: $67.20$52.84What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world... -
Monstrosities: Bodies And British Romanticism by Paul Youngquist 9780816639809
RRP: $44.08$39.19A surprising evaluation of the role of the physical body in the construction of British identityEighteenth-century medicine used the word "monstrosities" to describe physically deformed bodies-those irreducible to the "proper body" in their singular,... -
The Literature and Politics of the Environment Professor John Parham 9781843846970
RRP: $63.00$60.96Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a rich variety of case studies. Much as the complexities of climate change and the Anthropocene have queried the limits and... -
Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry by Robert C. Evans
$62.83Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early... -
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia: New edition Norris J. Lacy 9780815323037
RRP: $167.98$150.65First published in 1996. Now updated with a new information-packed 40-page Supplement covering the years 1990-1995, this unique Encyclopedia highlights the World of King Arthur from its origins in Dark Age Britain to the present day, when Arthurian... -
Defining Acts: Drama and the Politics of Interpretaion in Late Medieval England by Ruth Nisse
RRP: $58.78$50.69Defining Acts considers how the surviving English theatrical works of the fifteenth century represent competing practices of interpretation. The plays take up a series of contests over who could legitimately determine the meaning of texts-men or women,... -
Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost by Bjoern Quiring
RRP: $83.98$73.63Focusing on John Milton's Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law - an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In... -
Saturnalia: v. 3, Bk. 6-7 by Macrobius
RRP: $52.40$49.12An antiquarian's festival.The Saturnalia, Macrobius' encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a ... -
The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 by Shu-mei Shih
RRP: $60.90$48.17Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and... -
Reading Modernist Poetry Michael H. Whitworth (University of Oxford, UK) 9781405167314
RRP: $65.00$57.20This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating. Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and othersConsiders key... -
Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist by Johanna Drucker 9781421439648
$70.62A captivating portrait of futurist artist Iliazd infused with the reflections of his accidental biographer on the stickiness of the genre.The poet Ilia Zdanevich, known in his professional life as Iliazd, began his career in the pre-Revolutionary... -
Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood by Joseph Valente
RRP: $67.20$59.24Dracula's Crypt unearths the Irish roots of Bram Stoker's gothic masterpiece, offering a fresh interpretation of the author's relationship to his novel and to the politics of blood that consumes its characters. An ingenious reappraisal of a classic... -
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life by Philip Davis
$39.00Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period. The time is ripe for a revival of interest in a... -
Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form by Anna Kornbluh 9780823280384
RRP: $46.18$40.93During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice-drawing persistent... -
Gerard Manley Hopkins by Angus Easson
RRP: $79.78$70.10Gerard Manley Hopkins was among the most innovative writers of the Victorian period. Experimental and idiosyncratic, his work remains important for any student of nineteenth-century literature and culture.This guide to Hopkins' life and work offers: a... -
Dante: Contemporary Perspectives by Amilcare A. Iannucci 9780802077363
RRP: $62.98$56.07Dante: Contemporary Perspectives gathers recent and newly commissioned articles on Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), whose epic the Divine Comedy, is one of the landmarks of world literature. The essays in this volume probe current critical assumptions about... -
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism by Eric Hayot
RRP: $58.80$52.42Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an... -
Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature Kate Harper 9781032086347
RRP: $83.98$73.63Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls' series in the twentieth century. Who is the ideal girl? In what ways does the trope of the ideal girl rely on the exclusion and... -
Hamlet by Anthony Dawson 9780719046254
RRP: $41.98$28.41Links acting traditions with cultural milieu.. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground.. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much attention to the role of scenography .About the AuthorAnthony B. Dawson is... -
Read 'Em and Reap: Gambling on Italian American Writing by Fred Gardaphe 9781599541198
RRP: $35.70$27.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541198Author Fred Gardaph Format PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales by Manish Sharma 9781487509033
RRP: $130.20$112.41The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "insoluble." Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve... -
African Identities: Pan-Africanisms and Black Identities Kadiatu Kanneh 9780415164450
RRP: $79.78$70.10This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as... -
Odysseus: A Life by Charles Rowan Beye 9781401300241
$47.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401300241Author Charles Rowan BeyeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 354g -
Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative: Updated Edition by Alessandro Barchiesi 9780691176123
RRP: $39.88$31.75The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated. Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative is the first English translation of one of the most important... -
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition by Ruth Bernuth 9781479828449
RRP: $60.88$52.42How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to... -
Modernism and Empire: Writing and British Coloniality, 1890-1940 by Howard Booth 9780719053078
RRP: $52.50$47.00This is the first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire. Contributors look at works from the traditional modernist canon as well as extending the range of work addresses - particularly emphasising texts from... -
The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella by S. Y. Agnon
RRP: $39.88$35.11S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in... -
Dickens and the Dream of Cinema by Grahame Smith 9780719055638
RRP: $41.98$38.01An original blending of literary and film studies which seeks to dissolve barriers between the two disciplines. Offers a new reading of Dickens from the perspective of film, technology and visuality. Proposes a new reading of the emergence of film in the... -
The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England by Julie Park
$134.72Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human-dolls, automata, puppets-proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period, there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned... -
The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory by Daniel Carey 9780199677597
RRP: $151.20$151.16Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this... -
Williams Pantycelyn by Saunders Lewis 9781783169627
RRP: $52.48$39.48Un o gyfrolau mwyaf dadleuol yr ugeinfed ganrif yw Williams Pantycelyn gan Saunders Lewis, ac ymhlith yr astudiaethau beirniadol mwyaf cynhyrfus i ymddangos erioed yn y Gymraeg. Cynigiodd y gyfrol ffordd newydd i ddehongli athrylith yr emynydd o... -
Diana Wynne Jones: The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature Farah Mendlesohn 9780415872898
RRP: $100.78$87.80British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard's academies, dragons, and... -
Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis by Richard Terdiman
RRP: $71.40$64.09This book is about memory-about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural... -
Charles Dickens by Prof. Steven Connor 9780582210158
$100.46Dickens is second only to Shakespeare in the range and intensity of critical discussion which his work has provoked. His writing is central to literature and culture across the English-speaking world. In this important new anthology, Steven Connor... -
Shakespeare and Geek Culture by Andrew James Hartley 9781350185616
$57.75From fantasy and sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board games, from blockbuster films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. Where there is popular culture there are fans and nerds and geeks. The essays in this... -
The Actual One: How I Tried, and Failed, to Avoid Adulthood Forever by Isy Suttie 9780062571977
RRP: $39.88$28.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062571977Author Isy SuttieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance by James C. Bulman
$103.15The Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespeare specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally... -
Virginia Woolf and Trauma: Embodied Texts by Suzette Henke 9780944473795
RRP: $63.00$54.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944473795Author Suzette HenkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...