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Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-textes by Jed Deppman
RRP: €78.54€67.75This volume introduces English speakers to genetic criticism, arguably the most important critical movement in France today. In recent years, French literary scholars have been exploring the interpretive possibilities of textual history, turning... -
Kwame Anthony Appiah by Christopher J. Lee
RRP: €23.79€21.05This clear and engaging introduction is the first book to assess the ideas of Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Ghanaian-British philosopher who is a leading public intellectual today. The book focuses on the theme of 'identity' and is structured around five... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945 by Jennifer Ashton 9780521147958
RRP: €27.36€23.28The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern... -
Theory for Beginners: Children’s Literature as Critical Thought by Kenneth B. Kidd 9780823289608
RRP: €30.93€26.76Since its inception in the 1970s, the Philosophy for Children movement (P4C) has affirmed children's literature as important philosophical work. Theory, meanwhile, has invested in children's classics, especially Lewis Carroll's Alice books, and has also... -
The Manifestos of Aldo Palazzeschi by Aldo Palazzeschi 9781599541341
RRP: €14.28€10.66Apologies 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 *... -
Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity by Akiko Maeda 9780822333463
RRP: €28.55€25.28Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book of his work to appear in English. A literary and cultural critic deeply engaged with European critical... -
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages by Karen A. Winstead
RRP: €30.33€25.68The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life-writing from late Antiquity to the threshold of the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages, writers from Bede to Chaucer were thinking about life and... -
Leading the Way for Victorian Women: Geraldine Jewsbury and Victorian Culture by Abigail Burnham Bloom
€89.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224258Author Abigail Burnham BloomFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking by Cord J. Whitaker 9780812251586
RRP: €98.77€84.00In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white-or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the... -
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner 9780865478206
€11.31In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defence of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only... -
The Battle: Plays, Prose, Poems by Heiner Muller
RRP: €14.27€9.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555540494Author Heiner MllerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Performing Arts JournalsPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)... -
Posterity: Inventing Tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci by Professor Rocco Rubini 9780226807553
RRP: €47.60€46.35Reading a range of Italian works, Rubini considers the active transmittal of traditions through generations of writers and thinkers. Rocco Rubini studies the motives and literary forms in the making of a "tradition," not understood narrowly, as the... -
Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Alien Species by Ann Margaret Lewis
RRP: €41.65€24.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780345477606Author Ann Margaret LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House... -
Penelope Fitzgerald by Hugh Adlington 9780746312957
RRP: €22.24€20.33Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) has been acclaimed as one of the finest British novelists of the late twentieth century. Four of her novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize and one of them, Offshore (1979), won; her final work of historical fiction,... -
The Language of Fruit: Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century by Liz Bellamy
RRP: €73.78€63.74In The Language of Fruit, Liz Bellamy explores how poets, playwrights, and novelists from the Restoration to the Romantic era represented fruit and fruit trees in a period that saw significant changes in cultivation techniques, the expansion of the range... -
Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture by Tessa Roynon 9780199698684
€121.95In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and... -
Friedrich D?rrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume I, Plays by Friedrich Durrenmatt 9780226174266
RRP: €36.89€31.81The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in... -
The Experimental Novel by Emile Zola 9781513282176
RRP: €4.75€4.26The Experimental Novel (1880) is an essay by French author Emile Zola. Written at the height of his career as a leading proponent of Naturalism, The Experimental Novel serves to illuminate the author's approach to the practice and purpose of writing... -
Proteus: The Language of Metamorphosis by George Ferzoco
RRP: €23.79€21.05Since Ovid, the concept of metamorphosis has been an irresistible temptation for writers, not only as a metaphor for shifting personal identity but as a way of exploring ideas of cultural and political transition. The essays in this volume show how... -
Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau 9781573922029
RRP: €13.08€9.78Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and opponent of injustice. Civil Disobedience(1849),... -
Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White by Monika Szuba 9781474450614
RRP: €26.17€21.38With an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major Scottish poets, this groundbreaking book merges phenomenology and ecocritical literary criticism.Book InformationISBN... -
Poetics in a New Key: Interviews and Essays by Marjorie Perloff
RRP: €22.61€22.02Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to Poetics in a New Key that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was "at once honored and mystified." But to Perloff's surprise and her readers'... -
Literature and Food Studies by Amy L. Tigner
RRP: €42.83€37.71Literature and Food Studies introduces readers to a growing interdisciplinary field by examining literary genres and cultural movements as they engage with the edible world and, in turn, illuminate transnational histories of empire, domesticity,... -
Cormac Mccarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned by Patrick O'Connor 9781474497275
RRP: €23.79€21.87Explains Cormac McCarthy's consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output Provides a vital interpretive framework for understanding Cormac McCarthy's literary and philosophical perspectives Offers a systematic study of... -
British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875 by Elisabeth Jay 9780199655243
€131.44'A wicked and detestable place, though wonderfully attractive': Charles Dickens's conflicted feelings about Paris typify the fascination and repulsion with which a host of mid-nineteenth-century British writers viewed their nearest foreign capital... -
Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature by Christopher Langlois 9781474444378
RRP: €34.50€32.02Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature' addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett's major post-1945 works.Book InformationISBN 9781474444378Author... -
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus by Jane Gallop
RRP: €23.79€20.87Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one's sense of self. She challenges common... -
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760 by Diane Purkiss
RRP: €52.35€45.74The shared aim of these important new critical interventions into the early modern period is to make fresh feminist attempts to uncover the writings of Elizabethan and Jacobean women. Subject to silence, censorship and manipulation in the terms of... -
Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind Benjamin H. Ogden (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA) 9780815377283
RRP: €44.02€38.71Through a series of radical and innovative chapters, Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind challenges the tradition of applied psychoanalysis that has long dominated psychoanalytic literary criticism. Benjamin H. Ogden, a... -
D. H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis by John Turner
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book opens out a wholly new field of enquiry within a familiar subject: it offers a detailed - yet eminently readable - historical investigation, of a kind never yet undertaken, of the impact of psychoanalysis (at a crucial moment of its history) on... -
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780521170444
€28.80Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), includes two masterpieces - 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' - as well as other stories from his earlier career. Tales of the Jazz Age reproduces the original... -
Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace': Volume 5 by Gill Plain 9780748627455
RRP: €34.50€32.02This is a groundbreaking re reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. This study focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the Second World War. Through 7 chapters -... -
The Jameson Reader Michael Hardt (Duke University) 9780631202707
RRP: €55.87€49.19This book brings together key essays and excerpts from the broad spectrum of Frederic Jameson's writings, providing an accessible introduction to the intricacies of his thought and uncovering new and exciting aspects of his work.About the AuthorMichael... -
Deciphering The Lost Symbol: Freemasons, Myths and the Mysteries of Washington, D.C. by Christopher Hodapp
RRP: €15.46€10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569757734Author Christopher HodappFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 258g -
The Consolations of Writing: Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi by Dr. Rivkah Zim 9780691176130
RRP: €26.18€20.66Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic... -
Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece (1945-1975) by Dimitris Papanikolaou
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book shows how the model of singing poets becomes then an organizing principle for a system of national popular music. It responds to the growing call for the teaching of the textual networks of popular music within the domains of literary and... -
Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts Dr Rachel Scott (Customer) 9781897747384
RRP: €71.40€68.01At a time when the discourse of a clash of civilisations has been re-grounded anew in scaremongering and dog-whistle politics over a Hispanic "challenge" to America and a Muslim "challenge" to European societies, and in the context of the War on Terror... -
Why Argument Matters by Lee Siegel 9780300271072
RRP: €17.84€14.48Hailed by the New York Times as a book that "examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence" "An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of disagreement. . . . Sharp and taut. . . . A lesson... -
The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome by Joy Connolly 9780691162256
RRP: €26.18€20.66Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful... -
The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity by Linnie Blake 9780719075933
RRP: €101.15€71.60The wounds of nations explores the ways in which horror films allows international audiences to deal with the horrors of recent history - from genocide to terrorist outrage, nuclear war to radical political change. Far from being mere escapism or...