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Children's Literature in Hitler's Germany: The Cultural Policy of National Socialism by Christa Kamenetsky 9780821423646
RRP: $54.58$47.23Between 1933 and 1945, National Socialists enacted a focused effort to propagandize children's literature by distorting existing German values and traditions with the aim of creating a homogenous "folk community." A vast censorship committee in Berlin... -
Medieval English Drama by Katie Normington 9780745636047
$35.97Medieval English Drama provides a fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. The book places particular emphasis on the importance of the performance contexts of these events, bringing to life a period... -
John Milton: Selected Longer Poems and Prose by John Milton
RRP: $77.68$68.31An edition of Milton's later work rk includes the text of six books of Paradise Lost, The History of Britain and the whole of Samson Agonistes. Through his introduction, commmentary and full annotations, Tony Davies sets the works in their political and... -
Boccaccio's Florence: Politics and People in His Life and Work by Elsa Filosa 9781487505806
RRP: $144.90$125.69Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and... -
The Situationist International in Britain: Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde by Sam Cooper
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International's influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945 by Jennifer Ashton 9780521147958
RRP: $48.28$41.08The 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... -
The Beats Abroad: A Global Guide to the Beat Generation by Bill Morgan 9780872866898
RRP: $27.28$18.63The Beat Generation is one of the great homegrown countercultures of the United States, but in fact its writers traveled widely and most of them lived abroad for periods of time. Their travels were a vital source of inspiration, and in turn they inspired... -
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages by Karen A. Winstead
RRP: $53.53$45.32The 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... -
Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830 David Aers 9781138194472
RRP: $69.28$61.72First published in 1981.The primary purpose of this book is to serve as an introduction to writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In addition to major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelly - the authors discuss... -
Leading the Way for Victorian Women: Geraldine Jewsbury and Victorian Culture by Abigail Burnham Bloom
$157.75Apologies 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 -
Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels: Selected Papers on Virgil and Rome by Nicholas Horsfall
RRP: $267.75$244.34Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and... -
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner 9780865478206
$20.79In 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... -
Posterity: Inventing Tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci by Professor Rocco Rubini 9780226807553
RRP: $84.00$81.80Reading 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: $73.50$44.06Apologies 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... -
Shakespeare Survey 73: Shakespeare and the City by Emma Smith 9781108830539
$211.91Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a... -
The Language of Fruit: Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century by Liz Bellamy
RRP: $130.20$112.48In 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
$215.21In 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... -
The Experimental Novel by Emile Zola 9781513282176
RRP: $8.38$7.20The 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: $41.98$37.15Since 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... -
Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 3 by Diana E. Henderson
RRP: $77.68$68.31This volume takes up the challenge embodied in its predecessors, Alternative Shakespeares and Alternative Shakespeares 2, to identify and explore the new, the changing and the radically 'other' possibilities for Shakespeare Studies at our particular... -
Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic Martin M. Winkler (George Mason University) 9781405131834
RRP: $73.40$64.24This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen's epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. The first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen's epic film Troy from different... -
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics by Patricia Fumerton
RRP: $155.40$138.50In its seventeenth-century heyday, the English broadside ballad was a single large sheet of paper printed on one side with multiple woodcut illustrations, a popular tune title, and a poem. Inexpensive, ubiquitous, and fugitive—individual elements... -
British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875 by Elisabeth Jay 9780199655243
$230.12'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... -
Against Coercion: Games Poets Play by Eleanor Cook 9780804729376
RRP: $130.20$114.20"The inertia of language," declares Geoffrey Hill, is also "the coercive force of language." Good poets write against coercion, and Against Coercion is essentially about the power of words. Looking at our most highly organized form of words, poems, and... -
Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind Benjamin H. Ogden (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA) 9780815377283
RRP: $77.68$68.31Through 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... -
Preexisting Conditions - Recounting the Plague by Samuel Weber
RRP: $52.50$40.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130765Author Samuel WeberFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 161mm * 20mm -
Oral Poetry by Ruth Finnegan 9781532645044
RRP: $67.20$50.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532645044Author Ruth FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Winter'S Tale by Judith Dunbar
RRP: $168.00$119.05This illuminating study of The Winter's Tale in performance in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries contributes to understanding the growth during that time of high critical esteem forwhat is now one of Shakespeare's frequently performed plays... -
Amy Levy: Critical Essays by Naomi Hetherington
RRP: $50.38$44.44Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female... -
Texts by Helmut Heissenbuttel 9780714525907
RRP: $12.50$11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714525907Author Helmut HeissenbuttelFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
A Moving Rhetoricke: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England by Christina Luckyj 9780719083259
RRP: $41.98$36.98An investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources, from domestic conduct guides to emblem books, this study offers fresh perspectives on both culture and literature. -- .Book InformationISBN 9780719083259Author Christina LuckyjFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb by Hoda El Shakry 9780823286355
RRP: $50.38$44.44Winner, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association The novel, the literary adage has it, reflects a world abandoned by God. Yet the possibilities of novelistic form and literary exegesis exceed the... -
Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art by Gene H. Bell-Villada
RRP: $58.78$51.49From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest...writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciation of Borges himself and a pleasant disregard for the critical cliches, Bell-Villada tells us all we... -
Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy by Geraldine Heng 9780231125277
RRP: $63.00$49.75Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and... -
How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays by Daniel Mendelsohn
$23.08Whether on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new novel or revisiting a classic work of literature, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit... -
Shakespeare's Comedies: Explorations in Form Ralph Berry 9781138120464
RRP: $62.98$56.36In this lucid and original study, first published in 1972, Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night. Berry's purpose is to identify the form of each play by relating the governing idea of the play to the... -
Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc by Bonnie Wheeler 9781138974678
RRP: $100.78$88.47Joan of Arc has long piqued the historical imagination, for it seems impossible that a peasant-maid couldhave led the French army, crowned her king, and then been burned as a heretic, only later to be found a saint. This volume of original essays seeks... -
Decadence and Literature by Jane Desmarais 9781108426244
$220.58Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes... -
Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity -- Critical Writing 1984-1999 by Fred Wah 9781896300078
RRP: $41.98$26.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300078Author Fred WahFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 398g -
Why Argument Matters by Lee Siegel 9780300271072
RRP: $31.48$25.91Hailed 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...