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Lucian Opera Tomus IV (Books LXIX-LXXXVI) by M. D. Macleod 9780198145967
$99.04This volume completes the Oxford Classical Text of Lucian by adding eleven works of the Lucianic corpus proper, four other works wrongly attributed to Lucian in a few manuscripts, and those epigrams from the Anthologies which have any claim to be... -
Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences Dr Jennifer Flaherty 9781350320253
RRP: $46.18$40.49The collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital shaming. Violence against women. Sexual bullying. Racial slurs and injustice. These are just some of the problems faced by today's young adults. Liberating Shakespeare explores how adaptations of... -
Elfriede Jelinek: Writing Woman, Nation, and Identity: A Critical Anthology by Matthias Konzett 9781611473704
$246.31This volume is meant to introduce Elfriede Jelinek's diverse body of writing to the English-speaking public. Moreover, this collection of essays is not only of interest to scholars but also to teachers and students of literature alike. Fourteen scholars... -
On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities by Geoffrey Symcox 9781442645073
RRP: $84.00$73.44The first treatise ever written on the sociology of cities, On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1588) marked a radical departure from previous literature on urban centres. It provided a revolutionary analysis of how cities... -
Litcomix: Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel by Adam Geczy
RRP: $54.58$47.23Critical studies of the graphic novel have often employed methodologies taken from film theory and art criticism. Yet, as graphic novels from Maus to Watchmen have entered the literary canon, perhaps the time has come to develop theories for interpreting... -
Meeting Without Knowing It: Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Si`ecle by Alexander Bubb 9780198753872
$243.62Meeting Without Knowing It compares Rudyard Kipling and W.B. Yeats in the formative phase of their careers, from their births in 1865 up to 1903. The argument consists of parallel readings wed to a biographic structure. Reading the two poets in parallel... -
Hemingway: The Writer As Artist by Carlos Baker
RRP: $115.50$90.11In this fourth edition of the best-known critical study of Hemingway's work Carlos Baker has completely revised the two opening chapters, which deal with the young Hemingway's career in Paris, and has incorporated material uncovered after the publication... -
The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays by Stephen Orgel
RRP: $65.10$57.46In his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater whose plays were less finished artifacts than works in process. In contrast to a book, a thing we have come to think of as final and achieved, a play is a work for performance,... -
The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road by Catherine Liu 9780816648009
RRP: $46.18$41.14Rethinking the importance of Sigmund Freud's landmark book The Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication in 1900, this work brings together psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural theorists, film and visual theorists, and literary critics... -
The Daniel Clowes Reader: Ghost World, Nine Short Stories, and Critical Materials - Comics About Art, Adolescence, and Real Life by Ken Parille 9781606995891
RRP: $73.50$49.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995891Author Ken ParilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 829g -
Archipelagic Modernism: Literature in the Irish and British Isles, 1890-1970 by John Brannigan
RRP: $60.88$56.95This book offers a new archipelagic history of 20th-century literature in Britain and Ireland. Archipelagic Modernism examines the anglophone literatures of the archipelago from 1890 to 1970 for what they tell us about changing identities, geographies,... -
The International Companion to Scottish Poetry by Carla Sassi
RRP: $52.40$39.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980151Author Carla SassiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Lincoln's Selected Writings: A Norton Critical Edition Abraham Lincoln 9780393921793
RRP: $35.68$31.52Lincoln's Selected Writings includes letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses and more, accompanied by annotations, a preface, a note on the texts and a list of abbreviations. The writings are followed by contemporary... -
The Novel After Theory by Judith Ryan 9780231157438
RRP: $52.50$41.14Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions about the nature of authorship and the... -
Shakespeare's Lyric Stage: Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays by Seth Lerer 9780226582542
RRP: $50.40$48.36What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances-which should invite consolation, revelation, and... -
The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel by Jennifer Yee
RRP: $205.80$174.91Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart. Through Jennifer Yee's close reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist canon - Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant - The... -
The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: $48.30$42.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600077Author Edgar Allan PoeFormat HardbackPage Count 1040Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1055gDimensions(mm)... -
A Concise Companion to Chaucer Corinne Saunders (University of Durham) 9781405113885
RRP: $86.00$74.78This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer's major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally. Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority,... -
Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England by Megan Heffernan
RRP: $113.40$98.26In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England... -
Antiquities Beyond Humanism by Emanuela Bianchi
RRP: $44.08$43.83Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the "new materialisms", which point... -
The <I>Thebaid</I>: Seven against Thebes by Publius Papinius Statius 9780801886362
RRP: $55.65$50.53A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons of Oedipus-Polynices and Eteocles-for control of the city of Thebes. The Latin poet Statius reworks a familiar story from Greek myth, dramatized long... -
After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-up of Britain by Hywel Dix 9780708326640
RRP: $20.98$16.38After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain has two broad aims. The first is to re-examine the concept of cultural materialism, the term used by Raymond Williams to describe his theory of how writing and other cultural forms... -
Shakespeare Cut: Rethinking cutwork in an age of distraction by Bruce R. Smith
$41.24In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare | Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare in stage productions, video games, book sculptures, and YouTube postings, but it also takes... -
A History of Women's Writing in Italy by Letizia Panizza
RRP: $90.28$78.04A History of Women's Writing in Italy offers a comprehensive historical account of writing by women in Italy. Covering writing from the Middle Ages to the present day, it moves away from narrow definitions of literature, and brings to the reader's... -
Marxist Shakespeares by Jean E. Howard 9780415202343
RRP: $79.78$70.10Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. The book offers new insights into the historical conditions within which Shakespeare's representations of class and gender emerged, and... -
Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction by Mary M McGlynn 9780815637868
$71.86While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors. In Broken Irelands, McGlynn examines Irish... -
Ciris: A Poem From the Appendix Vergiliana by Dr Boris Kayachev
RRP: $147.00$140.93The Ciris is a small scale epic poem which relates the myth of Scylla, daughter of king Nisus of Megara, who betrayed her homeland for love, and was transformed into a sea-bird. It is one of the poems in the Appendix Vergiliana, a collection that has... -
Selected Cronicas by Clarice Lispector
$23.18"In 1967, Brazil's leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast and passionate her interests were. This beautifully... -
Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War by Sharon Ouditt
RRP: $79.78$70.10In a period of high idealism, and 'titanic illimitable death' women ofter found themselves longing to play an active role alongside their male compatriots. In this fascinating work, Sharon Ouditt examines the traumatic nature of women's experiences... -
The Saga of the Volsungs: with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford 9781624666346
RRP: $105.00$89.69From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and... -
Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society by Andre Lardinois
RRP: $100.80$79.57This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of... -
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama Nadine Holdsworth (University of Warwick) 9781118492130
RRP: $62.90$55.88Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers... -
The Better Story: Queer Affects from the Middle East by Dina Georgis 9781438445847
RRP: $53.57$46.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438445847Author Dina GeorgisFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Barbara Wright: Translation as Art by Debra Kelly
RRP: $60.88$40.40Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature." Wright introduced to an English-speaking readership and audience some of the... -
Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature by Teresa N Washington 9780991073054
RRP: $93.41$87.07Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Red Badge of Courage: A Norton Critical Edition by Stephen Crane
$35.30The Fourth Edition offers a broadened and restructured "Backgrounds and Sources" section that illuminates the social and intellectual climate of the 1890s and includes thought-provoking material by Jay Martin, Charles J. LaRocca, and Perry Lentz on... -
Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902-1978) by John Solt 9780674060746
RRP: $44.00$35.45Kitasono Katue was a leading avant-garde literary figure, first in Japan and then throughout the world, from the 1920s to the 1970s. In his long career, Kitasono was instrumental in creating Japanese-language work influenced by futurism, dadaism, and... -
A Monster of Voices: Speaking for H. P. Lovecraft by Robert H. Waugh 9780984480227
RRP: $52.50$46.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984480227Author Robert H. WaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 516gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present by Angelyn Mitchell
RRP: $58.78$52.33Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into... -
War and Combat, 1150-1270: the Evidence from Old French Literature Catherine Hanley 9780859917810
RRP: $168.00$160.88An investigation of the depiction of warfare in contemporary writings, in both fictional narratives and factual accounts. War and combat were significant factors in the lives of all conditions of people during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries;...