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The New Milton Criticism by Peter C. Herman 9781107603950
RRP: $48.28$41.73The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton... -
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms: Third Edition by Roland Greene 9780691170435
RRP: $67.20$56.20The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature. Featuring 226 fully... -
Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Robert S. Miola 9780199259861
$106.62Early Modern Catholicism makes available in modern spelling and punctuation substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Rather than perpetuate the... -
Duino Elegies by David Oswald 9783856307479
RRP: $60.88$41.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856307479Author David OswaldFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 248g -
The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile and the Nation by Zeina Halabi
RRP: $50.38$40.97Based on close readings of texts, Zeina Halabi counters the prevalent reading of late 20th-century Arabic literature as a neoliberal, apolitical, fragmented discourse.Book InformationISBN 9781474429009Author Zeina HalabiFormat PaperbackImprint Edinburgh... -
The Storytelling Human: Lithuanian Folk Tradition Today by Lina Būgienė 9781644694237
RRP: $163.78$156.66This book is among the very few publications offering to the English-speaking readership significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. Dealing with broad variety of materials-from archived manuscripts to audio-recorded life stories... -
Ngaio Marsh: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Bruce Harding 9780786460328
RRP: $75.58$62.16Considered one of the "Queens of Crime"--along with such greats as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham--Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a gifted writer and a celebrated author of classic British detective fiction, as well as a... -
Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831 Gerard Lee McKeever 9781474441681
RRP: $44.08$36.10This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context. With chapter case studies covering poetry, short fiction, drama and the novel, it examines a range of... -
Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare by Jayme Stayer
RRP: $64.05$57.04How did an ordinary, if intelligent, boy who wrote unremarkable poems become-with no help, and in record time-the author of one of the most significant and beloved poems of the twentieth century?T. S. Eliot's juvenilia show little inclination to question... -
Voices From Madagascar: An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature by Jacques Bourgeacq
RRP: $60.88$52.42There is currently in Madagascar a rich literary production (short stories, poetry, novels, plays) that has not yet reached the United States for lack of diffusion outside the country. Until recently, Madagascar suffered from political isolation... -
Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas by Adam Kirsch 9780393243468
RRP: $44.08$37.28Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute-[a] critic of the very first order" (The New York Times). In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt and Walter... -
Natural State: A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing by Steven Gilbar
RRP: $54.60$43.53This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers - be they naturalists or armchair explorers - will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the... -
Deleuze's Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment by Jeffrey Bell
RRP: $50.38$40.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474566Author Jeffrey BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Doppelganger Dilemmas: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Early Modern English Literature and Culture by Marjorie Rubright
RRP: $147.00$127.49The Dutch were culturally ubiquitous in England during the early modern period and constituted London's largest alien population in the second half of the sixteenth century. While many sought temporary refuge from Spanish oppression in the Low Countries,... -
Selling the Story: Transaction and Narrative Value in Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola by Jonathan Paine
RRP: $86.00$68.94A literary scholar and investment banker applies economic criticism to canonical novels, dramatically changing the way we read these classics and proposing a new model for how economics can inform literary analysis.Every writer is a player in the... -
Modernism from the Margins: The 1930's Poetry of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas by Chris Wigginton 9780708319277
RRP: $14.68$11.84"Modernism from the Margins" is an accessible and challenging account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time. Locating the work of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas historically, the book questions standard accounts of the... -
The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories by Mark Asquith
$67.83Annie Proulx is one of the most provocative and stylistically innovative writers in America today. She is at her best in the short story format, and the best of these are to be found in her Wyoming trilogy, in which she turns her eye on America's... -
Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 45 by Sebastian Sobecki 9780933784475
$142.25Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles... -
Antipodean George Eliot Margaret Harris 9781032424514
RRP: $75.58$67.07In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a 'flattering illusion of concentric arrangement'. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of... -
William Blake by John Lucas 9780582237100
RRP: $104.98$101.30The collection of essays presented in this volume represents some of the best recent critical work on William Blake as poet, prophet, visual artist, and social and political critic of his time.The critical range that is represented includes examples of... -
Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature by Simon Gikandi
RRP: $33.58$29.90In Simon Gikandi's view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity-a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by... -
Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook by Keith Green 9780415114394
RRP: $77.68$68.31Critical Teory and Practice answers lots of questions, but also stimulates new ones. Its tailor-made combination of survey, reader and workbook is ideal for the beginning - perhaps even bewildered - student of literary theory. The work is divided into... -
How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems by Daniel Donoghue
RRP: $130.20$114.20The scribes of early medieval England wrote out their vernacular poems using a format that looks primitive to our eyes because it lacks the familiar visual cues of verse lineation, marks of punctuation, and capital letters. The paradox is that scribes... -
Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature by Simon Gaunt
RRP: $92.38$80.09This wide-ranging study explores the ideological framework of genre in Old French and Occitan literature by charting the relationship between ideology and gender in five key genres: the chansons de geste, courtly romance, the Occitan canso, hagiography,... -
A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry Neil Roberts (University of Sheffield; University of Plymouth) 9781405113618
RRP: $90.20$80.37In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and... -
Studying Comics and Graphic Novels by Karin Kukkonen
RRP: $46.10$41.94This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout. * Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the... -
New York: A Literary History by Ross Wilson 9781108470810
RRP: $65.08$57.06New York City's streets, parks, museums, architecture, and its people appear in an array of literary works published from New York's earliest settlement to the present day. The exploration of the city as both a symbol and as a reality has formed the... -
Incest in Contemporary Literature by Miles Leeson 9781526148100
RRP: $63.00$56.03This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day. It considers a number of key authors and artists, rather than a single author from this period... -
Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990 by Richard Allen
RRP: $77.68$69.15Perhaps no two nations in modern times have had a more complex cultural engagement than imperial Britain and colonised India. This unique anthology of stories, poems, historical documents and extracts from novels - most unavailable elsewhere - enables... -
Helene Cixous: Authorship, Autobiography and Love by Susan Sellers 9780745612553
$37.99This is an introductory study of the work of Helene Cixous, novelist, dramatist and critic, whose work has had an extensive impact on the new French feminist theoretical movement.Book InformationISBN 9780745612553Author Susan SellersFormat PaperbackPage... -
Ezra Pound's Japan by Andrew Houwen
$63.69The first book to deal with the subject of Ezra Pound's relationships with Japanese literature as a whole, this book provides a wealth of new scholarship on this subject, including on the 19th-century Japanese contexts that led to Pound's interest in... -
Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability by Eszter Szép
$77.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257722Author Eszter SzepFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
George Orwell: A Literary Companion by Mark Connelly 9781476666778
RRP: $75.58$62.16George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of the most influential authors in the English language. His landmark novels Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949) have been translated into many foreign languages and inspired numerous stage and film adaptations. His... -
J.B. Priestley by Maggie B. Gale
RRP: $58.78$50.99J. B. Priestley is the first book to provide a detailed and up to date analysis of the enormous contribution made by this playwright, novelist, journalist and critic to twentieth century British theatre. Priestley was often criticised for being either... -
Arabic Belles Lettres by Joseph E. Lowry
RRP: $79.80$75.08Arabic Belles Lettres brings together ten studies that shed light on important questions in the study of Arabic language, literature, literary history, and writerly culture. The volume is divided into three sections. Early Narratives comprises: Joseph... -
Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them by Paula Meehan 9781906359911
RRP: $35.70$34.67Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them is the third volume in UCD Press's The Poet's Chair series, publishing the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998 following the award of the Nobel... -
Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns by Pauline Kiernan
RRP: $50.40$34.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592404018Author Pauline KiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Avery Publishing GroupPublisher Avery Publishing GroupWeight(grams)... -
Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy by Geoffrey H. Hartman
$56.55"Saving the Text" cuts through Jacques Derrida's complex blend of philosophy, commentary, and elaborate wordplay to ascertain his place in the history of criticism and the significance of Glas as literary event. Distinguished critic and scholar Geoffrey... -
Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre Sharon Cameron (The Johns Hopkins University) 9780801821165
$60.08"Lyric Time" offers a detailed critical reading of a particularly difficult poet, an analysis of the dominance of temporal structures and concerns in the body of her poetry, and finally, an important original contribution to a theory of the lyric. ... -
English Romantic Writers and the West Country by N. Roe
$101.35Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen's Chawton,...