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Close Reading the Anthropocene by Helena Feder
RRP: €44.02€38.71Reading 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
€122.63This 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
€96.52Jane 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: €47.59€41.72This 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: €30.93€26.63Covering 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: €35.70€32.55From 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: €115.43€104.52Dorotheus 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
€26.10This 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: €105.91€84.56Consolation 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: €45.21€39.72Literature 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: €45.21€39.72In 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: €23.79€17.28Irish 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: €52.36€50.30A 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: €33.32€32.59In "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: €105.90€101.57Elizabeth 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: €71.40€62.30'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: €26.17€22.84In 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
€80.28Apologies 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: €34.50€22.90Legendary 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
€58.89Lewis 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: €32.12€27.75The 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: €26.17€22.84This 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: €7.74€7.27Alexis 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: €107.10€89.87Presenting 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... -
The Modern Construction of Myth by Andrew Von Hendy
RRP: €41.65€37.06". . . one of the richest, clearest, and acutest surveys to date of the course of theorizing about myth from the eighteenth century on. I know of no more useful volume on the topic. Despite the postmodern connotations of the title, Von Hendy is writing... -
Piece of the Action: A Klondike’s Circus Novel by Nathan Woolford 9781528990134
RRP: €15.46€10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528990134Author Nathan WoolfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
A People's History of Silicon Valley by Keith A. Spencer
RRP: €13.08€8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911335337Author Keith A. SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 264gDimensions(mm)... -
Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory: Feminism and Retelling the Tale by Veronica L. Schanoes 9781138248076
RRP: €64.25€55.78At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assumed the masculine psyche as the norm for human development and mental/emotional health, writers such as Anne... -
Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania by Rahel Orgis
RRP: €47.59€41.72Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania offers the first systematic formal and thematic analysis of Wroth's Urania in its historical context and explores the structural means by which Wroth fashions her readership. The book... -
Essays on European Literature by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691618883
RRP: €89.25€80.49Although the reputation of the great German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius was firmly established for English and American readers by the translation of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, much of his work is still unknown to them. These... -
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by J. Jack Halberstam 9780814735848
RRP: €83.30€71.77The first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative... -
British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960: Between the Waves by Jane Thomas
€54.72An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women's writing by shedding new light on a group of authors... -
William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas by Ian Felce
RRP: €95.20€87.20An examination of how greatly the sagas and other literature of Iceland shaped the poems of William Morris. The work of William Morris (1834-1896) was hugely influenced by the medieval sagas and poetry of Iceland; in particular, they inspired his long... -
The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century by N. Katherine Hayles
RRP: €19.03€16.95From the central concept of the field-which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field- have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure's theory of language. In... -
Suite Antique by John Rutter 9780193560697
RRP: €44.92€34.15for chamber orchestra The instrumentation for this work is the same as Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.5. The Suite is made up of six movements ranging from a 'Bach-like Aria' to a 'Richard Rodgers-style Waltz'. Rutter's own style comes through most... -
Stanzaic Guy of Warwick by Alison Wiggins
RRP: €14.88€12.66The poem, which survives only in the Auchinleck Manuscript, deals with the later years of Guy's life, beginning with his return to Warwick after having established himself on the Continent as a pre-eminent model of knighthood. After his marriage,... -
Musings on Monsters: Observations on the World of Classic Horror by Lou Tambone
RRP: €19.03€17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940589237Author Lou TamboneFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Sequart Research & Literacy OrganizationPublisher Sequart Research & Literacy... -
Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky: Master Builders of the Spirit Stefan Zweig 9781412810470
RRP: €54.73€47.75Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in a trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of different nationalities--Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky--the world-portraying novelist. Though these essays were composed... -
Trauma in Contemporary Literature: Narrative and Representation by Marita Nadal
RRP: €57.11€49.75Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book analyzes and applies the... -
Modernism from the Margins: The 1930's Poetry of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas by Chris Wigginton 9780708319277
RRP: €8.32€6.50"Modernism from the Margins" is an accessible and challenging account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time. Locating the work of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas historically, the book questions standard accounts of the...