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Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida by Geoffrey Bennington 9780823270538
RRP: $65.10$57.46What if political rhetoric is unavoidable, an irreducible part of politics itself? In contrast to the familiar denunciations of political horse-trading, grandstanding, and corporate manipulation from those lamenting the crisis in liberal democracy, this... -
Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning through Collaboration by Liam E. Semler
RRP: $178.50$161.70Shakespeare education is being reimagined around the world. This book delves into the important role of collaborative projects in this extraordinary transformation. Over twenty innovative Shakespeare partnerships from the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand,... -
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 3: Beyond Broadway by C. W. E. Bigsby
RRP: $121.78$104.10In this, the third and final volume of his critical account of American drama in the twentieth century, Christopher Bigsby turns from the text-oriented drama of Williams, Miller and Albee (volume 2) in order to trace other, parallel theatrical... -
Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing by Miguel A. Cabanas
RRP: $83.98$73.63This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore... -
Charles Baudelaire Paris Scenes: A bilingual edition by Charles Baudelaire 9781909747869
RRP: $27.28$19.28The 'Tableaux Parisiens' (Paris Scenes) section of Les Fleurs du Mal contains eighteen poems which record a twenty-four-hour tour of the city: a type of Joycean journey from the point of view of a dandy Odysseus. Many of the poems in the sequence possess... -
Literary Meaning: From Phenomenology to Destruction William Ray (Reed College, Portland) 9780631134589
RRP: $86.00$75.37This book is both a guide to, and interpretation of, the course of modern literary theory. Exploring the various theories of reading which have informed post-war literary criticism, it shows that for all the fervour of current debate about new movements... -
Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture by Michiko Suzuki
RRP: $44.08$38.58Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century. As a literary and cultural history of love... -
Beckett's Political Imagination by Emilie Morin 9781108406208
RRP: $65.08$56.22Beckett's Political Imagination charts unexplored territory: it investigates how Beckett's bilingual texts re-imagine political history, and documents the conflicts and controversies through which Beckett's political consciousness and affirmations were... -
Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England by Patricia Fumerton
RRP: $54.60$52.19Poor migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. By 1650, half of England's rural population consisted of homeless and itinerant laborers. "Unsettled" is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the everyday... -
Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature by Miriam Cooke 9780415925549
RRP: $79.78$70.10This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible.About the AuthorMiriam Cooke is Professor and... -
England in the Age of Shakespeare by Jeremy Black 9780253042316
RRP: $50.38$43.76How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King... -
Comics & Media: A Special Issue of Critical Inquiry by Hillary L. Chute
$30.22The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and commercial success - and that new prominence has led to increasing interest within the academy as well. Comics & Media, a special issue of the journal... -
Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us about Being Human by Grant Morrison
RRP: $39.90$27.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981384Author Grant MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Dear Mr. Beckett - Letters from the Publisher: The Samuel Beckett File Correspondence, Interviews, Photos by Barney Rosset
RRP: $57.75$50.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623160708Author Barney RossetFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Opus BooksPublisher Opus Books -
The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture by Anna McFarlane
RRP: $90.28$82.59In this companion, an international range of contributors examine the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements, providing readers with snapshots of cyberpunk culture and also cyberpunk... -
Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects 1950-2010 by Rebecca Kosick
RRP: $77.70$70.88Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lensThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they... -
A Literary History of Persia by Edward G. Browne
RRP: $79.78$73.14Nearly a hundred years since its publication, E. G. Browne's A Literary History of Persia remains a classic work in English on the subject. Spanning four volumes, it took Browne over 25 years to write and whilst it concentrates on Persian literature, it... -
Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community by Nancy K. Miller
RRP: $37.78$33.39How do we come to terms with what can't be forgotten? How do we bear witness to extreme experiences that challenge the limits of language? This remarkable volume explores the emotional, political, and aesthetic dimensions of testimonies to trauma as they... -
The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War by Susan Crane 9780812218060
RRP: $50.38$43.76Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events... -
Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987 - 2007 Liam Harte 9781444336207
RRP: $54.50$47.46Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some... -
Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family by Kristin Mahoney
RRP: $157.50$142.25Queer Kinship after Wilde investigates the afterlife of the Decadent Movement's ideas about kinship, desire, and the family during the modernist period within a global context. Drawing on archival materials, including diaries, correspondence, unpublished... -
Through Buddhist Eyes by Sangharakshita 9781911407812
RRP: $62.90$44.63Through Buddhist Eyes continues Sangharakshita's five volumes of memoirs. Covering journeys across five continents and two decades, this volume is made up of nineteen travel letters and one talk. They are Sangharakshita's heartfelt communications to the... -
Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction by David Glover
RRP: $44.08$39.19Nearly a hundred years after its debut in 1897, Dracula is still one of the most popular of all Gothic narratives, always in print and continually adapted for stage and screen. Paradoxically, David Glover suggests, this very success has obscured the... -
Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader: Eating Words by Jason Scott-Warren 9780367665654
RRP: $83.98$73.63In early modern culture, eating and reading were entangled acts. Our dead metaphors (swallowed stories, overcooked narratives, digested information) are all that now remains of a rich interplay between text and food, in which every element of dining,... -
The Best of Plimpton by George Plimpton 9780871135032
$23.65George Plimpton is best known for taking to the arenas of professional sports and surviving to write about his experience--with grace, urbanity, and considerable good humor. But such classics as "Paper Lion" and "The Bogey Man" are... -
The Cambridge Companion to John Updike by Stacey Olster
RRP: $69.28$59.70John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. This... -
The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel by Catherine Gallagher 9780691136301
RRP: $67.20$52.00The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions... -
Metre, Rhyme and Free Verse G. S. Fraser 9781138241930
RRP: $69.28$61.72First published in 1970, this work outlines the principles of English prosody in a way that will enable the reader to recognise and scan any piece of English verse. It illustrates the close relationship between English speech patterns and verse patterns,... -
The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 by Liam Semler
RRP: $88.18$77.18The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance. The sources are arranged chronologically in 120... -
H. G. Wells's Perennial Time Machine by George Slusser 9780820350622
$64.87Acclaimed as a work of genius when first published in 1895, The Time Machine represents a revolution in storytelling. H. G. Wells's first--and greatest--novel has been recognized worldwide as a founding text of the science fiction genre and one of the... -
Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603 by Ted Tregear
RRP: $163.80$148.85Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare's works. Some featured whole poems, while others chose short passages from his poems and plays, gathered alongside lines on similar topics by his... -
The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean by Giselle Liza Anatol 9780813565736
RRP: $75.60$59.51The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag-an aged woman by day who sheds her skin... -
The Dickens Industry - Critical Perspectives 1836-2005 by Laurence W. Mazzeno
RRP: $69.28$61.38Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform, for half a century after his death he was... -
Worlds in one country by Denis Hirson 9781431402472
RRP: $29.30$24.76Worlds in one country is a compact, inclusive history of writing in South Africa from the nineteenth century to 1994 that crosses boundaries of language and colour, including prose, poetry and theatre. It is an accessible story rather than a theoretical... -
Providence After Dark and Other Writings by T E D Klein 9781614982685
RRP: $63.00$60.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982685Author T E D KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 780g -
Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism by Dahlia Porter
RRP: $65.08$46.01Exploring a topic at the intersection of science, philosophy and literature in the late eighteenth century Dahlia Porter traces the history of induction as a writerly practice - as a procedure for manipulating textual evidence by selective quotation -... -
The Forgotten Sense: Meditations on Touch by Pablo Maurette
RRP: $50.40$48.36Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable--and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millennia. Yet it is also the sense that links us most intimately to the world around us, from our mother's caress... -
Golden Fruit: A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy by Christina Mazzoni 9781487502669
RRP: $105.00$90.45Through a close reading of key texts, including poetic and spiritual writings, fairy tales, and a botanical treatise, Golden Fruit examines the role of oranges in Italian culture from their introduction during the medieval period through to the present... -
Renaissance Figures of Speech by Sylvia Adamson
RRP: $189.00$158.59The Renaissance saw a renewed and energetic engagement with classical rhetoric; recent years have seen a similar revival of interest in Renaissance rhetoric. As Renaissance critics recognised, figurative language is the key area of intersection between... -
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre by Naomi Conn Liebler 9780415131834
RRP: $79.78$70.10Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy is a unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Naomi Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Coriolanus and King Lear as `sacrifical victims of the prevailing social...