Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Dicta and Contradicta by Karl Kraus 9780252026485
RRP: $67.20$59.24"A woman is more than just her exterior. The lingerie is also important." "The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span." "Art serves to rinse out our eyes." Uniquely combining humor with profundity and venom with... -
The Fables of Odo of Cheriton by of Cheriton Odo 9780815623267
$44.10This is one of the first complete collections of medieval Latin fables to appear in modern English. Odo of Cheriton (c. 1185- c. 1247) wrote sophisticated fables, filled with great wit and humor, yet highly moral, even didactic, in keeping with the age... -
The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China by Thomas Kelly 9780231209632
RRP: $63.00$48.91Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed books or the boundaries of the paper page. Poets carved lines... -
The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9780415910019
RRP: $79.78$72.87Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies... -
Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction by Bernice Murphy
RRP: $37.78$34.97Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction provides an accessible, concise and reliable overview of core critical terminology, key theoretical approaches, and the major genres and sub-genres within popular fiction. The book also provides critical and... -
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory by Professor Mark Christian Thompson
RRP: $48.30$46.47This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field's debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal Blackness examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key... -
Demosthenes, Speeches 1-17 by Jeremy Trevett
RRP: $58.78$50.69This is the fourteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the... -
The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership by Adrienne Brown 9781503638648
RRP: $50.38$43.76Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception, and value of... -
The Manifestos of Aldo Palazzeschi by Aldo Palazzeschi 9781599541341
RRP: $25.20$19.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541341Author Aldo PalazzeschiFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Homer's Daughters: Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Fiona Cox 9780198802587
RRP: $246.75$177.98This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this... -
Walt Whitman and British Socialism: 'The Love of Comrades' Kirsten Harris (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) 9780367870515
RRP: $83.98$73.63This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman's influence on British socialism. Harris combines a contextual historical study of Whitman's reception with focused close readings of a variety of poems, books, articles, letters and speeches. She... -
Romantic Shades and Shadows by Susan J. Wolfson 9781421425542
RRP: $116.55$102.59Haunting's consequences for the literary imagination.Reading is a weirdly phantasmic trade: animating words to revive absent voices, rehearing the past, fantasizing a future. In Romantic Shades and Shadows, Susan J. Wolfson explores spectral language,... -
Iago: The Strategies of Evil by Harold Bloom 9781501164231
RRP: $33.60$19.91From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello’s Iago, perhaps the Bard’s most compelling villain—the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities.Few... -
Shakespeare and Directing in Practice by Kevin Ewert
$65.58When directors approach Shakespeare, is the play always the thing - or might something else sometimes be the thing? How can directing produce fresh contexts for Shakespeare's work? Part of the innovative series Shakespeare in Practice, this book... -
Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550-1650 Rebecca Laroche 9781138250529
RRP: $113.38$98.43The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals, Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts also looks at reasons... -
The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse by Alan Rudrum 9781551114620
$104.43The publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one... -
Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and Culture Bernhard Klein 9780754606208
RRP: $283.50$246.29This timely collection brings together twelve original essays on the cultural meaning of the sea in British literature and history, from early modern times to the present. Interdisciplinary in conception, it charts metaphorical and material links between... -
Stephen King and American History by Tony Magistrale
RRP: $69.28$61.24This book surveys the labyrinthine relationship between Stephen King and American History. By depicting American History as a doomed cycle of greed and violence, King poses a number of important questions: who gets to make history, what gets left out,... -
Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature" by Jane Chance 9781349679867
RRP: $52.48$51.14This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien's life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized-namely, the Other... -
Sartorial Strategies: Outfitting Aristocrats and Fashioning Conduct in Late Medieval Literature by Nicole Smith
RRP: $58.78$50.69Costume historians and literary critics have sharpened understandings of dress as it constructs bodies and identities, but none has considered how representations of clothing in medieval literature respond to clerical discourses that sought to regulate... -
The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism by Joseph Childers
RRP: $73.50$58.25-- Times Literary SupplementMore than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as... -
Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric by Daniel E. O'Sullivan
RRP: $44.08$38.58Texts centred on the mother of Jesus abound in religious traditions the world over, but thirteenth-century Old French lyric stands apart, both because of the enormous size of the Marian cult in thirteenth-century France and the lack of critical attention... -
The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
$108.49In a parlor game played by the Surrealist group-the foremost avant-gardists of their time-participants made their marks on the quadrants of a folded sheet of paper: a many-eyed head, a distorted torso, hands fondling swollen breasts, snarling... -
Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry by Antony Rowland
RRP: $157.50$142.25This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. The author argues that the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and he investigates whether a new... -
The Gist of Reading by Andrew Elfenbein 9781503603851
RRP: $44.08$38.58What happens to books as they live in our long-term memory? Why do we find some books entertaining and others not? And how does literary influence work on writers in different ways? Grounded in the findings of empirical psychology, this book amends... -
William Blake: Selected Works by Peter Otto 9780192868053
RRP: $50.38$46.98This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of William Blake (1757-1827). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to explore Blake's... -
Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre by Kerry Fine
RRP: $58.78$51.532021 Top Ten Finalist for the Locus Awards in Nonfiction Joshua Smith's chapter "Uncle Tom's Cabin Showdown" won the 2021 Don D. Walker Prize from the Western Literature AssociationWeird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre-an... -
The Brontes: The Critical Heritage by Miriam Allott
RRP: $96.58$85.11The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.Reviews'An... -
Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature by Rebecca Richardson
RRP: $64.05$57.48What the Victorian history of self-help reveals about the myth of individualism.Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians... -
Shakespeare, Theology, and the Unstaged God by Anthony D. Baker 9780367784836
RRP: $88.18$77.18While many scholars in Shakespeare and Religious Studies assume a secularist viewpoint in their interpretation of Shakespeare's works, there are others that allow for a theologically coherent reading. Located within the turn to religion in Shakespeare... -
The Learned Banqueters: v. 4: Books 8-10.240e by Athenaeus
RRP: $52.40$49.90Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of ... -
Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy by Matthew Oliver 9781476687131
RRP: $60.88$52.19While all fiction uses words to construct models of the world for readers, nowhere is this more obvious than in fantasy fiction. Epic fantasy novels create elaborate secondary worlds entirely out of language, yet the writing style used to construct those... -
Medieval Literature: The Basics by Angela Jane Weisl 9781138669055
RRP: $41.98$37.72Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the... -
Poetry and Psychiatry: Essays on Early Twentieth-Century Russian Symbolist Culture by Magnus Ljunggren 9781618113696
RRP: $33.58$32.72A century ago the Symbolists in Moscow and St. Petersburg dreamed of a fundamental transformation of life in Russia. From their reading of signs in the heavens, these poets, philosophers, and mystics sensed that tsardom was on the threshold of an... -
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Critical Biography by John Worthen
$215.04Drawing especially on the many scholarly discoveries of recent years, this biography examines the life - and death - of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Based on sceptical historical investigation and featuring an in-depth look at Shelley's personal,... -
Before Einstein: The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siecle Literature and Culture by Elizabeth L. Throesch 9781785271786
RRP: $52.50$49.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785271786Author Elizabeth L. ThroeschFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon by Yasmine Khayyat 9780815637936
$66.76War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as... -
A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us about Justice by Kenji Yoshino 9780061769122
RRP: $33.58$21.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061769122Author Kenji YoshinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Dorian Unbound: Transnational Decadence and the Wilde Archive by Sean O'Toole
RRP: $60.90$54.35A bold reimagining of the literary history of Decadence through a close examination of the transnational contexts of Oscar Wilde's classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.Building upon a large body of archival and critical work on Oscar Wilde's only... -
The Triumph of Religion by Jacques Lacan 9780745659893
$84.88"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was...