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Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany by Anna Linton 9780199233366
$209.66In early modern Europe it has been estimated that up to one in two children did not survive to the age of ten. In the light of this high mortality rate, some historians have argued that parents did not form close relationships with their children,... -
Vergil in the Middle Ages by Domenico Comparetti
RRP: $107.25$83.67From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from... -
The Proverbs of Middle-earth by Peter Kreeft 9780999591406
RRP: $35.10$31.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999591406Author Peter KreeftFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint 1981Publisher 1981Weight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Amongst Those Left by Francis Booth
$34.92Amongst Those Left is a long-overdue study of experimental literature in Britain from the beginning of the twentieth century through the 1980s. Undertaken with the aim of refuting the idea that "while American and French fiction was exciting and... -
Vernacular Literary Theory from the French of Me - Texts and Translations, c.1120-c.1450 by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
RRP: $77.98$77.10Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval England offer a guide to medieval literary theory. From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, French was one of England's main languages of literature, record, diplomacy and commerce... -
The Melusine Romance in Medieval Europe - Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts by Lydia Zeldenrust
RRP: $156.00$150.17The legend of Melusine examined in a pan-European context. Readers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic figure of Melusine - a beautiful fairy woman cursed to transform into a half-serpent once a week, whose part-monstrous sons are the ancestor... -
Third Part of Henry the Sixth by William Shakespeare 9780140714678
RRP: $21.72$16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140714678Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House... -
The Song of the Massacred Jewish People by Katzenelson Yitzhak 9781587905582
RRP: $29.25$22.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587905582Author Katzenelson YitzhakFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Regent PressPublisher Regent PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm... -
Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative Mark Freeman (College of the Holy Cross, MA, USA) 9781138942035
RRP: $77.98$68.37Originally published in 1993. This book explores the process by which individuals reconstruct the meaning and significance of past experience. Drawing on the lives of such notable figures as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth as well as on the... -
Shakespeare in Performance by Robert Shaughnessy
$59.14This collection of modern essays by leading figures in the field of Shakespeare scholarship reveals the rich interplay between contemporary theoretical approaches - psychoanalytic, new historicist, feminist and cultural materialist - and the study of the... -
Science and Poetry in Medieval Persia: The Botany of Nizami's Khamsa by Christine van Ruymbeke
RRP: $175.50$123.44Nizami Ganjavi is one of the foremost figures in Persian poetry, living in Azerbaijan in the second half of the twelfth century. One of the oldest Western poets in Persian literature, he is acclaimed for his five masnavis which are assembled to form the... -
The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment by Tita Chico
RRP: $193.05$66.30Challenging 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... -
Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library by Andrew M. Stauffer
RRP: $76.05$66.53In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as... -
The Oxford Handbook of Dante by Manuele Gragnolati 9780198883876
$80.15The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields... -
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative by Audrey Fisch
RRP: $64.33$55.34The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American... -
The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition: Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
$73.44Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the eleven-volume Works of Edmund Spenser collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser's minor poems, prose works, and Alexander C. Judson's The Life of Edmund Spenser.About the AuthorEdmund Spenser... -
Reading Literature in Portuguese: Commentaries in Honour of Tom Earle by Claudia Pazos Alonso
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book brings together textual commentaries in English and Portuguese on thirty representative works of literature in Portuguese - either complete poems or extracts from longer works.About the AuthorClaudia Pazos AlonsoBook InformationISBN... -
Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe by Robert Tobin
RRP: $105.30$91.24In eighteenth-century Germany, the aesthetician Friedrich Wilhelm Basileus Ramdohr could write of the phenomenon of men who evoke sexual desire in other men; Johann Joachim Winckelmann could place admiration of male beauty at the center of his art... -
The Black Feminist Reader Joy James (Brown University) 9780631210078
RRP: $75.95$66.69Organized into two parts, "Literary Theory" and "Social and Political Theory," this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the marginalization of African American and Caribbean women in literature, society, and political movements... -
The Death of the Critic by Ronan McDonald 9780826492807
$28.90The critic has long been a reviled figure, at best the mere handmaiden of the 'creative' arts, at worst a parasite upon them. For playwright Brendan Behan, critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it is done. They have seen it done every day... -
The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Negritude, Vitalism, and Modernity by Donna V. Jones 9780231145497
RRP: $54.60$42.51In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the elan vital, or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and... -
Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru by Rolena Adorno
RRP: $38.98$34.98In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva coronica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of... -
In Defense Of Reason by Yvor Winters 9780804001519
RRP: $60.45$54.13Yvor Winters has here collected, with an introduction, the major critical works-Primitivism and Decadence, Maule's Curse, and The Anatomy of Nonsense-of the period in which he worked out his famous and influential critical position. The works together... -
A Cycle of the West: The Song of Three Friends, The Song of Hugh Glass, The Song of Jed Smith, The Song of the Indian Wars, The Song of the Messiah by John G. Neihardt
RRP: $68.25$60.63A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt's exhilarating vision of frontier history. It is infused with wonder, nostalgia, and a keen appreciation of epic history. Unquestionably the... -
Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius by Shadi Bartsch 9780691606910
RRP: $58.50$45.42Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view of the genre itself. Bartsch demonstrates that these... -
Children's Literature Comes of Age: Toward a New Aesthetic by Maria Nikolajeva 9781138953130
RRP: $64.33$56.86Originally published in 1996. A detailed analysis of the art of children's literature covering world literature for children, children's literature as a canonical art form, the history of children's literature from a semiotic perspective, and epic,... -
The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 1: C Prologue-Passus 4; B Prologue-Passus 4; A Prologue-Passus 4 by Andrew Galloway 9780812239225
$184.14"A work of enormous importance. Of all the poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman is the one that most deserves and needs annotation of the fullest and best possible kind, both because it is a text of unrivaled literary quality and interest, and... -
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights by Sophia A. McClennen
RRP: $89.68$78.25The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics... -
Literature and Complaint in England 1272-1553 by Wendy Scase 9780199270859
RRP: $136.50$113.41Literature and Complaint in England 1272-1553 gives an entirely new and original perspective on the relations between early judicial process and the development of literature in England. Wendy Scase argues that texts ranging from political libels and... -
Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays by Patricia Duncker 9780863584329
RRP: $25.25$23.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780863584329Author Patricia DunckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Rivers Oram Press/Pandora ListPublisher Rivers Oram Press -
The Persian Prison Poem by Rebecca Ruth Gould
RRP: $175.50$143.68Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia... -
The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics by Aidan Tynan
RRP: $175.50$159.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474443357Author Aidan TynanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Brian Friel by Scott Boltwood
$56.69This essential guide provides a deeply informed survey of the criticism of all the plays and major stories authored by Brian Friel. Scott Boltwood introduces readers to the key themes that have been used to characterise Friel's entire career, moving... -
Elegy for an Age: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature by John D. Rosenberg 9781843311546
RRP: $29.23$28.63This rich and elegant work describes how the unsettled cultural climate provided fertile soil for the flourishing of elegy. John Rosenberg shows how the phenomenon of elegy pervaded the writing of the period, tracing it through the voices of individuals... -
Postcolonial Poetry in English by Rajeev S. Patke 9780199275649
$95.10The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies... -
Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment by Simon Richter
RRP: $169.65$154.67The cult of the female breast in contemporary American and European society is as pervasive as it is notorious. Our current fascination merely updates a long-standing obsession with the breast, which over the past twenty years has also become a subject... -
Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power by Jane Chance
RRP: $44.85$42.71" With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the popularity of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is unparalleled. Tolkien's books continue to be bestsellers decades after their original publication. An epic in league with those of... -
Robert Lepage's Intercultural Encounters by Christie Carson
RRP: $33.15$28.70This study returns to the origins of Robert Lepage's directorial work and his first cross-cultural interaction with a Shakespearean text to provide some background for his later work. This early work is situated within the political and social context of... -
How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford) 9781405135276
RRP: $68.15$60.12HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE "This is a companion to Shakespeare with a difference. Vive la differance!" DAVID BEVINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO "Doing things with literature: scholarly articles are not the only way... -
In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children by Sam George
RRP: $165.75$117.33In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, wild children and werewolves as portrayed in...