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Latin American Writers at Work by Paris Review 9780679773498
$33.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679773498Author Paris ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 316gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity by Linnie Blake 9780719075933
RRP: $178.50$126.36The 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... -
Transnational Literature: The Basics by Paul Jay
RRP: $39.88$35.43Transnational Literature: The Basics provides an indispensable overview of this important new field of study and the literature it explores. It concisely describes the various ways in which literature can be understood as being "transnational," explains... -
Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures by Antonio Cornejo Polar
RRP: $44.08$38.58Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most... -
Isidore Etymologiae Vol. II. Books XI-XX by W. M. Lindsay 9780198146681
$96.08Isidore Etymologiae Vol. II. Books XI-XXBook InformationISBN 9780198146681Author W. M. LindsayPage Count 458Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 131mm * 31mm -
Literature and the World Stefan Helgesson 9780815384656
RRP: $69.28$61.24Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature and globalization. The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by a wide spectrum of exemplary readings and case studies from around... -
The Relatio Metrica de Duobus Ducibus: A Twelfth-Century Cluniac Poem on Prayer for the Dead by Scott G Bruce 9782503568270
$251.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503568270Author Professor of English Christopher A JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams)... -
Transports: Travel, Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 by Chloe Chard 9780300063820
RRP: $94.50$92.84In this rich exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history, and anthropology investigate the experiences of travelers and their ways of understanding and... -
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy 9781107046504
$221.84The Woodlanders (1887) was Thomas Hardy's elventh published novel and the one he claimed to like 'as a story, the best of all'. It is a story of wide appeal, having much to say on themes such as marriage and social class, and with a background revealing... -
Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning Christopher M. Driscoll (Lehigh University, USA) 9781032177168
RRP: $83.98$74.19Kendrick Lamar has established himself at the forefront of contemporary hip-hop culture. Artistically adventurous and socially conscious, he has been unapologetic in using his art form, rap music, to address issues affecting black lives while also... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West by Steven Frye
RRP: $48.28$41.08This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most vibrant and expansive traditions in world literature. The American West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, and the literature it produced transcends the category of... -
The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin's Critical Program by Kevin McLaughlin
RRP: $52.48$45.51The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hoelderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin's... -
Readers and Reading by Andrew Bennett 9780582212909
RRP: $104.98$100.46Much literary criticism focuses on literary producers and their products, but an important part of such work considers the end-user, the reader. It asks such questions as: how far can the author condition the response of the reader, and how much does the... -
Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy: Case Studies and Strategies by Diana Henderson
RRP: $48.28$42.23Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy is an international collection of fresh digital approaches for teaching Shakespeare. It describes 15 methodologies, resources and tools recently developed, updated and used by a diverse range of contributors in Great... -
Yeats The Poet: The Measures of Difference Edward Larrissy 9780745016290
RRP: $94.48$91.52This work addresses Yeats's "antinomies", seeing their origin and structure in his divided Anglo-Irish inheritance and examining the notion of measure. It then explores how this relates to freemasonry, Celticism and Orientalism and looks at the Blakean... -
Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts by Jonathan Goldberg
RRP: $50.38$43.76Being of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across time... -
Antony and Cleopatra by Carol Chillington Rutter 9781526132499
RRP: $178.50$100.25This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present. It observes the choices that actors, directors, designers, musicians and adapters have made each time they have brought the... -
Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture 1681-1714 by Abigail Williams
RRP: $119.70$118.15Poetry and the Creation of Whig Literary Culture offers a new perspective on early eighteenth century poetry and literary culture, arguing that long-neglected Whig poets such as Joseph Addison, John Dennis, Thomas Tickell, and Richard Blackmore were more... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson by Frank Shuffelton
RRP: $50.38$35.97This Companion forms an accessible introduction to the life and work of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence. Essays explore Jefferson's political thought, his policies towards Native... -
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination by Jess Row 9781555978327
RRP: $33.60$19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555978327Author Jess RowFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 25mm -
New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror by Eddie Falvey
RRP: $63.00$53.70The taste for horror is arguably as great today as it has ever been. Since the turn of the millennium, the horror genre has seen various developments emerging out of a range of contexts, from new industry paradigms and distribution practices to the... -
Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc by Gustaf Sobin 9780520253353
RRP: $63.00$57.52Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene - these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered throughout the... -
A Guide to Latin Elegy and Lyric by Barbara K. Gold
RRP: $92.30$80.68Provides the necessary context to read elegiac and lyric poetry, designed for novice and experienced Classics and Latin students alike A Guide to Latin Elegy and Lyric explores the language of Latin poetry while helping readers understand the... -
On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
RRP: $33.58$29.90The greatest and most enduring of the prophets of the Victorian era, Thomas Carlyle was prescient about the importance of heroism in defining a nation's ambition and character. First published in 1841, his On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in... -
The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers by Derek Attridge 9780198833154
RRP: $174.30$129.89Was the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616?... -
Thomas Hardy at Max Gate: The Latter Years by Andrew Norman 9780857042675
RRP: $20.98$17.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042675Author Andrew NormanFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain by J.Jeffrey Franklin 9781501715440
RRP: $98.70$86.02Spirit Matters explores the heterodox and unorthodox religions and spiritualities that arose in Victorian Britain as a result of the faltering of Christian faith in the face of modernity, the rise of the truth-telling authority of science, and the first... -
Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords by Patricia Parker
RRP: $121.80$107.02What does the keyword "continence" in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the "quince" with weddings that is crucial for A Midsummer Night's Dream? How... -
Arthurian Literature by Women: An Anthology Alan Lupack 9780815334835
RRP: $83.98$74.19Arthurian Literature by Women: An Anthology is a collection of Arthurian poems, stories, and plays by women, from Marie de France to the present, all of which are either significant examples of Arthurian literature or innovative interpretations of... -
Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation by Greg Walker 9780199231973
RRP: $111.30$110.86Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history. It looks at the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights, and prose writers of the early English... -
Cultural Politics - Queer Reading by Alan Sinfield
RRP: $79.78$70.10Following a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics - Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies.An illuminating introduction... -
The Microeconomic Mode: Political Subjectivity in Contemporary Popular Aesthetics by Jane Elliott
RRP: $46.20$36.46From The Road to Game of Thrones, across works as seemingly different as Gone Girl and Saw, literature, film, and television have become obsessed with the intersection of survival and choice. When the trapped rock-climber hero of 127 Hours is confronted... -
Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823270620
RRP: $50.38$44.44First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes's writings, the picture of Descartes as the father of modern philosophy: the thinker who founded the edifice of... -
Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840 by Thomas Pfau 9780801881978
$126.04This large and ambitious study reinterprets the evolution of British and German Romanticism as a progress through three successive 'moods.' By this term Pfau here means emotion "read in its embodied manifestation as the 'voice' of a historical moment,... -
John Donne, Coterie Poet by Arthur F. Marotti 9781556356773
RRP: $81.90$62.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556356773Author Arthur F. MarottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility by C. Stephen Jaeger
RRP: $58.78$51.49"Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the... -
Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words Steven Gould Axelrod 9780801843747
RRP: $55.65$53.97This is a "biography of the imagination, " an inner narrative of Sylvia Plath's life and work. Combining psychoanalytical, feminist, and intertextual methods, Steven Gould Axelrod traces what Roland Barthes has called "the body's journey through language... -
On the Edge of the Holocaust - The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture by Edna Aizenberg
RRP: $67.20$64.83In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of... -
Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England by Eleanor Johnson 9780226830179
RRP: $50.40$48.36A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England. While the scale of today's crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the late Middle Ages, when a convergence of land... -
The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment by Tita Chico 9781503613591
RRP: $50.38$43.76Challenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British...