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Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England by Joe Moshenska 9780198807193
£36.14The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It had long been seen as the most certain and reliable of the senses, and also as biologically necessary: each of the other senses could be relinquished, but to... -
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
RRP: £9.99£6.64A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 'At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan' Mary Beard 'Thomas's elegant, charming book offers... -
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation by Hayden V. White 9780801841156
RRP: £24.00£22.38Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption-in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the... -
The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo
RRP: £13.99£9.17"It is to the Greeks that we turn when we are sick of the vagueness, of the confusion, of our own age."-Virginia WoolfDiscover a new passion for a very old language, a language that can express what can't be said in any other, and thrillingly relevant to... -
Songs of the Women Troubadours by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner 9780815335689
RRP: £37.99£33.38This work offers an edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairitz, a remarkable group of women poets from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours. Introductory essays and notes by... -
The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington 9780198834571
RRP: £17.99£12.95She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish. After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean,... -
The Freud Reader by Peter Gay
RRP: £16.99£12.68Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of 20th century life. To understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers but also his vivid writings on art, literature, politics, religion and culture. The Freud Reader is the first... -
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism by Lauren Fournier
RRP: £31.00£26.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544887Author Lauren FournierFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis by Stephen Cheeke 9780719083242
RRP: £19.99£17.61Writing for art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosophical and theoretical questions arising from the encounter of literary texts and artworks. Stephen Cheeke... -
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan
RRP: £25.00£16.38'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary exploration of the birth, death, and legacy of the... -
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine
RRP: £16.00£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140446890Author Christine de PizanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780199645213
RRP: £8.99£6.45'War, the bringer of tears...' For 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. This tragic episode during the siege of Troy, sparked by a quarrel between the leader of the Greek army... -
Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995 by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £9.99£6.80From the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Dearly I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.Eating Fire brings together three of Margaret's Atwood's key poetry collections: Poems... -
A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
RRP: £10.99£9.37A much-loved author brings the world of literature alive for all ages This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is... -
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375892Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt by Stephen Quirke 9781444332001
RRP: £27.95£24.25Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt offers a stimulating overview of the study of ancient Egyptian religion by examining research drawn from beyond the customary boundaries of Egyptology and shedding new light on entrenched assumptions. Discusses the... -
Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry by Adonis 9780863565243
RRP: £9.99£6.80Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are amongst the leading poets in the Arab world today. Victims of a Map presents some of their finest work in translation, alongside the original Arabic, including thirteen poems by Darwish never before published... -
The Cambridge Old English Reader by Richard Marsden
RRP: £30.99£27.92This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old English' section for newcomers to the Old English... -
Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant
RRP: £22.99£18.37A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the... -
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
RRP: £14.99£9.80Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief.With these pieces... -
Ecocriticism by Greg Garrard
RRP: £19.99£17.69Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The... -
John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Margaret Kean
RRP: £19.99£17.69John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate... -
How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature by Emily Hauser 9780691201078
RRP: £35.00£27.74How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one-aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words,... -
We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays, 1967-1984 by Sylvia Wynter
RRP: £39.99£28.29The beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her important body of work. The essays and articles collected here go... -
The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up by James Rallison
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131809Author James RallisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Classic Irish Short Stories by Frank O'Connor
£13.90From its origins in the folk tale, through its evolution in response to changing social and political conditions to its current form, the Irish short story has retained its own distinct and unique form. The finest writers of their time are represented... -
Japanese Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Tansman
RRP: £8.99£6.45With a history stretching back nearly 1,500 years, Japanese literature is infused from its beginnings with written traditions from around the globe, while ever evolving in its own particular expressive modes and vision. This Very Short Introduction... -
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 9780140435122
RRP: £9.99£7.51'A revelation ... as well as being sympathetic to the plight of children, it is hilarious' A. N. WilsonThe hero of Dickens's flamboyantly exuberant novel, Nicholas Nickleby, is left penniless after his father's death and forced to make his own way in the... -
Shakespearean Tragedy by A. Bradley
RRP: £12.99£9.09A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become "real" at all' writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello,... -
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection by Oscar Wilde 9780674248670
RRP: £23.95£19.14An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era."I cannot think other than in stories," Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend Andre Gide. In this new selection of his short fiction, Wilde's... -
Fuck, Now There Are Two of You (Go the Fuck to Sleep #3) by Adam Mansbach
RRP: £15.95£9.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617757600Author Adam MansbachFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm) 17mm *... -
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry
RRP: £12.99£9.09A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology' The Guardian 'At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement' Daily Telegraph'An exhilarating feat, it takes its... -
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling 9780140447408
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world... -
The Equality of the Sexes: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century by Desmond M. Clarke 9780199673513
£45.80Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society... -
The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism by Paul Hamilton 9780198831143
£41.09TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period... -
Vergil: The Poet's Life by Sarah Ruden 9780300256611
RRP: £18.99£16.18A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid "Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy 'ancient' into our contemporary . . . persuasively re-imagined [as] a sympathetic,... -
Indo-European Poetry and Myth by M. L. West 9780199558919
RRP: £72.00£56.12The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended, most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional... -
The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot by John Xiros Cooper 9780521547598
RRP: £19.99£17.13T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to... -
La Bete humaine by Emile Zola
RRP: £8.99£6.45Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780140449747
RRP: £9.99£7.11Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. This new translation is accompanied by an...