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The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Four: 1686-1696 Paul Hammond 9781032477954
RRP: €40.45€39.22Volume Four covers poems published between 1693 and 1696, principally Dryden's translations from Juvenal and Persius, and those from Ovid and Homer included in the miscellany Examen Poeticum (1693). This new edition represents the most informative and... -
Marlowe's Ovid: The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon M. L. Stapleton 9781032098999
RRP: €47.59€41.72The first book of its kind, Marlowe's Ovid explores and analyzes in depth the relationship between the Elegies-Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Amores-and Marlowe's own dramatic and poetic works. Stapleton carefully considers Marlowe's Elegies in the... -
Remaining Relevant after Communism: The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe Andrew Baruch Wachtel 9780226867663
RRP: €38.08€37.02More than any other art form, literature defined Eastern Europe as a cultural and political entity in the second half of the twentieth century. Although often persecuted by the state, East European writers formed what was frequently recognized to be a... -
James Baldwin Review: Volume 1 by Douglas Field
RRP: €29.75€21.32The James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a... -
Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge by Angus Vine 9780198809708
€113.99This book examines one of the most pervasive, but also perplexing, textual phenomena of the early modern world: the manuscript miscellany. Faced with multiple problems of definition, categorization, and (often conflicting) terminology, modern scholars... -
Shakespeare and Immigration Ruben Espinosa 9781138260979
RRP: €64.25€55.78Shakespeare and Immigration critically examines the vital role of immigrants and aliens in Shakespeare's drama and culture. On the one hand, the essays in this collection interrogate how the massive influx of immigrants during the reign of Queen... -
Shakespeare's London 1613 David M. Bergeron 9781526135681
RRP: €23.79€17.28Shakespeare's London 1613 offers for the first time a comprehensive 'biography' of this crucial year in English history. The book examines political and cultural life in London, including the Jacobean court and the city, which together witnessed an... -
The Qur`an in Sixteenth Century Spain: Six Morisco Versions of Sura 79 by Consuelo Lopez-Morillas
RRP: €95.20€91.17Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Language of the Texts Tapsir The Texts Glossary Photographs of the Texts Bibliography and AbbreviationsBook InformationISBN 9780729301213Author Consuelo Lopez-MorillasFormat HardbackPage... -
Religion in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands Manuel Broncano 9781138654471
RRP: €52.35€45.74This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy's fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Current criticism is divided between those who find a theological dimension in his works, and those who reject such an... -
Media of Serial Narrative by Frank Kelleter
€45.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253991Author Frank KelleterFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet's Ace Reporter by Tim Hanley 9781613733325
RRP: €24.93€20.09In a universe full of superheroes, Lois Lane has fought for truth and justice for over 75 years on page and screen without a cape or tights. From her creation by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 to her forthcoming appearance in Batman v Superman:... -
Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation by Sorcha Gunne 9780415896689
RRP: €54.73€47.75The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the... -
Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze by Professor Stanley E. Gontarski
RRP: €28.55€26.00''Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze' focuses on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21st centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic... -
Modernist Literature by Potter
RRP: €28.55€26.00Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies. Discussing canonical modernist writers such as James Joyce and T. S. Eliot alongside less familiar writers such as Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, the guide... -
The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature Josephine Guy 9780415487115
RRP: €42.83€37.71Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy, and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary... -
Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder by Sarah Tindal Kareem
RRP: €35.09€32.31A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up... -
Dante by John Took
RRP: €33.32€25.94An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine ComedyFor all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante's writings... -
Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England by Eoin Bentick
RRP: €95.20€91.17Explores the myriad ways in which alchemy was conceptualised by adepts and sceptics alike, from those with recourse to a fully functioning laboratory to those who did not know their pelican from their athanor! The language of alchemy (the art of... -
A Theory of Narrative by Rick Altman
RRP: €35.70€34.49Narrative is a powerful element of human culture, storing and sharing the cherished parts of our personal memories and giving structure to our laws, entertainment, and history. We experience narrative in words, pictures, and film, yet regardless of how... -
The Picaresque Harry Sieber 9781138237452
RRP: €40.45€35.70First published in 1977, this book studies the picaresque as a literary genre. It begins by discriminating between the literature of roguery and the picaresque in particular before discussing the origins of the genre in Spain and tracing its development... -
Irish Literature in Transition, 1940-1980: Volume 5 by Eve Patten 9781108480444
€125.00This volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the 'Emergency') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It situates modern Irish writing within the contexts of cultural transition and... -
The Sense of Early Modern Writing: Rhetoric, Poetics, Aesthetics by Mark Robson
RRP: €35.70€25.36In The sense of Early Modern writing, Mark Robson pursues the relation between the concept of the 'early modern' and modernity, tracing the complex interactions of post-Romantic, philosophical aesthetics and early modern rhetoric and poetics. The book... -
Beowulf and Beyond: Classic Anglo-Saxon Poems, Stories, Sayings, Spells, and Riddles by Dan Veach
RRP: €20.83€19.58Beowulf & Beyond is the first and only collection of translations into modern English to include not only Beowulf but all of the best-known works of Anglo-Saxon literature in one convenient volume. The texts translated here are taken chiefly from the ... -
Re-inventing Japan: Nation, Culture, Identity Tessa Morris-Suzuki 9780765600820
RRP: €65.44€56.79This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan.Book InformationISBN... -
The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities by Seth T. Reno
RRP: €44.02€38.71Perhaps no concept has become dominant in so many fields as rapidly as the Anthropocene. Meaning "The Age of Humans," the Anthropocene is the proposed name for our current geological epoch, beginning when human activities started to have a noticeable... -
Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Herv Guibert by Michael Lucey 9780226606217
RRP: €30.94€29.57Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In Someone, Michael Lucey... -
Reflecting on Miss Marple Marion Shaw 9781138322479
RRP: €39.26€34.70Originally published in 1991, Reflecting on Miss Marple looks at the incongruous combination of violence, murder and a sweet, white-haired old lady, and examines why this makes such a potent but unlikely formula. The book is an astute and engaging... -
Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays by Jason Fisher 9780786464821
RRP: €17.84€15.71Over the past four decades, source criticism--the analysis of a writer's source material--has emerged as one of the most popular approaches in exploring the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since Tolkien drew from a wide range of disparate sources in the... -
The Original Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
RRP: €17.84€15.51In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then eighteen years old, began to write the novel Frankenstein after she and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost-story competition at Lord Byron's villa by Lake Geneva. Over the next nine... -
Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre by Amy Lidster
RRP: €89.25€80.61During the early modern period, the publication process decisively shaped the history play and its reception. Bringing together the methodologies of genre criticism and book history, this study argues that stationers have - through acts of selection and... -
Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations by Alexander Regier
€101.98Exorbitant Enlightenment compels us to see eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture in new ways. This book reveals a constellation of groundbreaking pre-1790s Anglo-German relations, many of which are so radical so exorbitant that... -
The Victorians and Old Age by Karen Chase 9780199564361
€117.60Karen Chase examines old age as it was constructed in Victorian social and literary cultures. Beginning with the vexed relation between elderly people whose numbers and needs taxed the state which sought to identify, classify, and provide for them, she... -
'Who the Devil Taught Thee So Much Italian?': Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern England by Jason Lawrence
RRP: €23.79€20.96This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, particularly Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. It is the first study to suggest a fundamental connection between ... -
The Medieval Saga by Carol J. Clover 9781501740503
RRP: €19.03€16.95Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland-the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate... -
Graham Swift by Daniel Lea 9780719068379
RRP: €23.79€20.96This book offers an accessible critical introduction to the work of Graham Swift, one of Britain's most significant contemporary authors. Through detailed readings of his novels and short stories from 'The Sweet Shop Owner' (1980) to 'The Light of Day'... -
European Memories of the Second World War by Helmut Peitsch 9781571819369
RRP: €127.33€103.85During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume... -
Performance in Beowulf and other Old English Poems Dr Steven J.A. Breeze 9781843846451
RRP: €95.20€91.17An examination of the depiction and representation of performative acts in Old English texts. Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old... -
The Works of Richard Edwards: Politics, Poetry and Performance in Sixteenth Century England by Rosalind King 9780719080661
RRP: €23.79€21.21The heart of this book is its fully annotated, critical editions of the surviving work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. Ros King's extensive introduction, identifying the holes in... -
Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts Larissa Tracy (Royalty Account) 9781783275922
RRP: €41.64€40.79Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval and early modern societies viewed murder and dealt with murderers. Murder - the perpetrators, victims, methods and motives - has been... -
The Anatomist of Power - Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority by Costas Despiniadis
RRP: €19.04€15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551646565Author Costas DespiniadisFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 220gDimensions(mm) 214mm...