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Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture by Chris Mourant
RRP: $58.78$54.62This book considers Mansfield's ambivalent position as a colonial woman writer by examining her contributions to the political weekly The New Age, the avant-garde little magazine Rhythm and the literary journal The Athenaeum.Book InformationISBN... -
Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism by Stephanie O'Rourke
RRP: $157.50$142.25Can we really trust the things our bodies tell us about the world? This work reveals how deeply intertwined cultural practices of art and science questioned the authority of the human body in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing... -
The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition: Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
$79.09Originally 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... -
Kindred Voices: A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia by Michael Pifer
RRP: $78.75$76.08The fascinating story of how premodern Anatolia's multireligious intersection of cultures shaped its literary languages and poetic masterpieces By the mid-thirteenth century, Anatolia had become a place of stunning cultural diversity. Kindred Voices... -
Mankind by Kathleen M. Ashley
RRP: $27.30$23.14Mankind is at once conventional in its adherence to morality and extraordinary in its effervescence and wit. The text is a morality play warning Mankind how it may be led astray by temptation, while simultaneously entertaining the audience with banter... -
Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe by Robert Tobin
RRP: $113.40$98.26In 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... -
J.R.R. Tolkien by Toby Widdicombe
$50.63With his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.R.R. Tolkien invented the modern fantasy novel. For readers and students getting to grips with this world for the first time, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Guide for the Perplexed... -
The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poety by Richard Harrier 9780674094604
RRP: $140.60$111.17Thomas Wyatt is the finest English poet between Chaucer and the Elizabethans. Many poems have been wrongly attributed to him, however, and the authenticity of different versions of his lyrics has been a matter of dispute. Richard Harrier makes a... -
The Saint and the Saga Hero - Hagiography and Early Icelandic Literature by Sian E. Gronlie
RRP: $115.50$110.23A compelling argument that far from developing in a literary vacuum, saga literature interacts in lively, creative and critical ways with one of the central genres of the European middle ages. The relationship between that most popular of medieval... -
Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 by David O'Shaughnessy
RRP: $65.08$47.99The theatre was a crucial forum for the representation of Irish civility and culture for the eighteenth-century English audience. Irish actors and playwrights, operating both as individuals and within networks, were remarkably popular and potent during... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin by Ken Hirschkop 9781107109049
RRP: $104.98$94.44In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin's texts,... -
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 9: The Motets by Jacques Boogaart 9781580442879
RRP: $73.50$60.04Guillaume de Machaut, a pioneer of a new school of lyric compositions, is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. This long overdue new edition of Machaut's twenty-three motets, the largest surviving collection of such works by a... -
The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Negritude, Vitalism, and Modernity by Donna V. Jones 9780231145497
RRP: $58.80$45.78In 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... -
The Three Latkes by Eric A Kimmel
RRP: $14.68$11.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541588929Author Eric A. KimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Kar-Ben PublishingPublisher Lerner Publishing GroupDimensions(mm) 222mm * 266mm * 6mm -
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: $73.50$61.05A 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... -
Shakespeare and Montaigne by Lars Engle 9781474458245
RRP: $62.98$58.80Ground-breaking essays comparing Shakespeare and Montaigne Introduces and explores a wide range of fresh approaches to comparative study of Shakespeare and Montaigne Illuminates connections, parallels, and discontinuities between the artistry of... -
Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
RRP: $52.50$41.14Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes... -
Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity by Giovanni Manetti
RRP: $58.78$50.69"It's the first book which revisits Greek and Latin theories of signs from the point of view of a profound classical scholarship and a paramount knowledge of contemporary semiotics debates." -Umberto EcoAvailable in English for the first time is... -
A History of the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction Since 1992 Merritt Moseley 9781032019109
RRP: $77.68$68.84In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also... -
Literature and Consolation: Fictions of Comfort by Jürgen Pieters
RRP: $54.58$49.52Provides a deeper understanding of the comforts of reading literature History of the concept of consolation Readings of canonical works (Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Flaubert) Critical analysis of bibliotherapy Chapter on contemporary writers and... -
The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 1: C Prologue-Passus 4; B Prologue-Passus 4; A Prologue-Passus 4 by Andrew Galloway 9780812239225
$203.15"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... -
Literature and Complaint in England 1272-1553 by Wendy Scase 9780199270859
RRP: $147.00$122.14Literature 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: $27.20$25.05Apologies 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 -
A Companion to Galician Culture by Helena Miguelez-Carballeira 9781855662773
RRP: $168.00$160.46The first in-depth yet accessible introduction to Galician history and culture for both lay and specialized readers. Of all the differentiated regions comprising contemporary Spain, Galicia is possibly the most deeply marked by political, economic and... -
The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology by Alan Heimert 9780674740662
RRP: $96.50$78.48The whole destiny of America is contained in the first Puritans who landed on these shores, wrote de Tocqueville. These newcomers, and the range of their intellectual achievements and failures, are vividly depicted in The Puritans in America. Exiled from... -
The Persian Prison Poem by Rebecca Ruth Gould
RRP: $189.00$154.73Through 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... -
Making Literature Now by Amy Hungerford
RRP: $41.98$37.40How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making... -
Jacques Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis by Ellie Ragland-Sullivan 9780252014659
RRP: $39.88$35.11This volume is the first clear and comprehensive critical analysis of Jacques Lacan's thought for the English-speaking world. With Jacques Lacan and the philosophy of Psychoanalysis Ellie Ragland-Sullivan not only fills that gap but also provides the... -
Postcolonial Poetry in English by Rajeev S. Patke 9780199275649
$102.42The 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... -
Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power by Jane Chance
RRP: $48.30$47.46" 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... -
Aristotle Re-Interpreted: New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators by Richard Sorabji
RRP: $94.48$92.44This volume presents collected essays - some brand new, some republished, and others newly translated - on the ancient commentators on Aristotle and showcases the leading research of the last three decades. Through the work and scholarship inspired... -
In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children by Sam George
RRP: $178.50$126.36In 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... -
Essays on the Psalms of Solomon: Its Cultural Background, Significance, and Interpretation by Kenneth Atkinson 9783161624483
RRP: $235.83$234.84The Psalms of Solomon, a collection of 18 Jewish psalms from the Second Temple period, have long been a fascinating topic for scholarship. In this volume, leading scholars from a range of disciplines offer new insights into the cultural background,... -
The Hydra's Tale: Imagining Disgust by Robert Rawdon Wilson
RRP: $62.98$51.49In The Hydra's Tale, Robert Rawdon Wilson treats the experience of disgust not from the perspective of the disgusting object-in-the-world, but from its representation. Working through the spectrum of human response, culture, and art, Wilson teases out... -
Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language by Abdelfattah Kilito 9780815635604
$37.99It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious... -
The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays, The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective by Francis Fergusson 9780691622316
RRP: $67.20$52.84An original and beautifully written book on changing perspectives in the art of theater. Through a study of nine plays--Oedipus Rex, Berenice, Tristan und Isolde, Hamlet, Ghosts, The Cherry Orchard, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Noah, Murder in... -
Material Inspirations: The Interests of the Art Object in the Nineteenth Century and After by Jonah Siegel 9780198858003
$162.98This book is a study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the course of still-current accounts of art's nature and value. Fundamental questions about the... -
James Joyce and Nationalism by Emer Nolan
RRP: $283.50$246.29James Joyce and Nationalism comprehensively revises our understanding of Joyce by re-examining his writing against Irish Nationalism. In this exciting and provocative book, Emer Nolan looks at the relationship between modernism and nationalism, tracing... -
Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Language of Allusion by Lucy Newlyn 9780199242597
$109.79In this study of two creative minds, Lucy Newlyn offers a new version of the Coleridge-Wordsworth interaction during its most crucial years: 1797-1807. Rejecting all those accounts (including the poets' own) which have sought to construe difference as... -
Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba by Yvonne Daniel
RRP: $33.58$29.90Using dance anthropology to illuminate the values and attitudes embodied in rumba, Yvonne Daniel explores the surprising relationship between dance and the profound, complex changes in contemporary Cuba.From the barrio and streets to the theatre and...