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The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects, War, Literary Form by Rachel Murray
RRP: $44.08$40.43Focusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations... -
Hamlet's Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England by Andr^D'as Kis^D'ery 9780198746201
$221.34Hamlet's Moment identifies a turning point in the history of English drama and early modern political culture: the moment when the business of politics became a matter of dramatic representation. Drama turned from open, military conflict to diplomacy and... -
Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought by Brian Hurley
RRP: $107.00$85.18Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of literature and thought. This book explores some of their most intellectually and aesthetically provocative connections in the volatile... -
Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible by Georgina Colby
RRP: $46.18$38.58An in-depth analysis of the work of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writersKathy Acker's body of work is one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. In 'Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible', Georgina Colby... -
A Beowulf Handbook by John D. Niles 9780803261501
RRP: $54.58$48.07The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition. Each chapter provides a history... -
The Afterlife of St Cuthbert: Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690–1500 by Christiania Whitehead
RRP: $167.98$152.38This ambitious book presents the first sustained analysis of the evolving representation of Cuthbert, the premier saint of northern England. The study spans both major and neglected texts across eight centuries, from his earliest depictions in anonymous... -
Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film by Dr. Alix Beeston
RRP: $63.00$51.35This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects-abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended-as rich and underappreciated resources for feminist film and media studies. In deeply researched and creatively conceived chapters, scholars... -
A Companion to the Works of Stefan George by Jens Rieckmann
RRP: $69.28$60.90New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity. Stefan George (1868-1933) is along with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria Rilke one of the pre-eminent German poets of the... -
Byron J. Drummond Bone 9780746307755
$41.73After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own personality. Now he is read and studied both for his complex politics and as a forerunner of many of the ideas... -
Douglas Coupland by Andrew Tate 9780719076619
RRP: $52.50$46.26This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland's career, from Generation X: Tales for an... -
Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Conde by Leah D. Hewitt
RRP: $25.18$23.33"In order to write" said Simone de Beauvoir, "the first essential condition is that reality can no longer be taken for granted." She and four other French women writers of the second half of the twentieth century-Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras,... -
Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry by Kathleen Kidder
RRP: $44.00$35.45Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood? Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry tackles this fundamental question through a study of five... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Jane Couchman
RRP: $92.38$82.82Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a... -
Music for the Off-Key: Twelve Macabre Short Stories by Courttia Newland 9781845230401
RRP: $18.88$14.62A middle-aged man with a guilty taste for schoolgirls looks for a way to end his shame; a hotel receptionist begins a sexual adventure with shattering consequences; a young man is troubled by a persistent itch behind his shoulder-blades; a young African... -
The Joyce Country: Literary Scholarship and Irish Culture by David Pierce 9781912224029
$147.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224029Author David PierceFormat HardbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
Cross-Channel Modernisms by Claire Davison
RRP: $54.58$50.30Described by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as 'a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure', in the early twentieth century the English Channel, or 'La Manche' in French, represented both a political and an intellectual barrier between... -
Attitudes Toward History, Third edition by Kenneth Burke
RRP: $63.00$48.91This book marks Kenneth Burke's breakthrough in criticism from the literary and aesthetic into social theory and the philosophy of history. In this volume we find Burke's first entry into what he calls his theory of Dramatism; and, here also is an... -
American Literature Before 1880 by Robert Lawson-Peebles
RRP: $115.48$110.21American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the... -
The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes by Rick Bass
RRP: $46.20$34.40On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by "an American classic" (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors through memorable meals and conversations"Some years later, George Plimpton offered to punch me in the nose," recounts Rick... -
The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Frederick Burwick 9780199644179
$97.15A practical and comprehensive reference work, the Oxford Handbook provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on all aspects of Coleridge's diverse writings. Thirty-seven chapters, bringing together the wisdome of experts from across... -
Galdos Jo Labanyi 9780582085305
RRP: $69.28$68.08Benito Perez Galdos has been described as 'the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes.' His work constitutes a major contribution to the nineteenth-century novel, rivalling that of Dickens of Balzac and making him an essential candidate for any course... -
The Aeneid of Virgil, 35th Anniversary Edition by Virgil 9780520254152
RRP: $52.50$41.98This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume... -
Novel Bodies: Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Jason S. Farr
RRP: $62.98$55.21Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways to reconfigure the political and social landscapes of... -
Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research by Alex Cordoba-Aguilar 9780192898623
RRP: $252.00$227.49This research level text documents the latest advances in odonate biology and relates these to a broader ecological and evolutionary research agenda. Despite being one of the smallest insect orders, dragonflies offer a number of advantages for both... -
Essays on European Literature by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691618883
RRP: $157.50$142.04Although the reputation of the great German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius was firmly established for English and American readers by the translation of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, much of his work is still unknown to them. These... -
Science Fiction - The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future: Volume One, Prometheus to the Martians Thomas Lombardo 9781785358531
RRP: $62.98$52.98An evolutionary and transformative journey through the history of science fiction from the innermost passions and dreams of the human spirit to the farthest reaches of the universe, human imagination, and beyond. '...a grand vision of the role of science... -
Short History of Greek Literature by Jacqueline de Romilly 9780226143125
RRP: $58.80$57.52Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.Book InformationISBN 9780226143125Author Jacqueline de RomillyFormat PaperbackPage... -
States of Fantasy by Jacqueline Rose
$105.55States of Fantasy is Jacqueline Rose's much-praised contribution to the current controversy over the limits of English Studies. Arguing for an expansion of the new boundaries of `English', and for the importance of psychoanalysis to the understanding of... -
All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature by Jose Vergara 9781501759901
RRP: $100.80$86.92All Future Plunges to the Past explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. Through contextually rich close readings, Jose Vergara uncovers the many roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last century,... -
Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece by Diane J. Rayor
RRP: $52.50$41.14Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic... -
Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature by Roy Scranton 9780226637310
$48.36Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero--the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence--has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political... -
Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint by Andrea Brady
RRP: $189.00$171.00Poetry and Bondage is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the history of poetic constraint. For millennia, poets have compared verse to bondage - chains, fetters, cells, or slavery. Tracing this metaphor from Ovid through the present, Andrea... -
Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts by Marie-Louise Coolahan 9780367530778
RRP: $83.98$73.63Katherine Philips (1632-1664) is widely regarded as a pioneering figure within English-language women's literary history. Best known as a poet, she was also a skilled translator, letter writer and literary critic whose subjects ranged from friendship and... -
Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft by Professor Steven G. Kellman
RRP: $39.88$35.66Though it is difficult enough to write well in one's native tongue, an extraordinary group of authors has written enduring poetry and prose in a second, third, or even fourth language. Switching Languages is the first anthology in which translingual... -
Classica et Mediaevalia 65: DANISH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY by George Hinge
RRP: $119.68$98.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763543958Author George HingeFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)... -
Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion by Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor
RRP: $58.80$57.52At the height of Maria de Zayas' popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish... -
After Lacan: Literature, Theory and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century by Ankhi Mukherjee 9781108466486
RRP: $48.28$41.08This book draws on the distinct phases of Jacques Lacan's career to show his way of thinking in and beyond his lifetime. It is an examination of the past, present, and futures of psychoanalysis, as these are developed in the dimensions of language,... -
Gael and Lowlander in Scottish Literature: Cross-Currents in Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century by Christopher MacLachlan
RRP: $41.90$31.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980106Author Christopher MacLachlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the 11th and 12th Centuries by Brian Stock
RRP: $147.00$114.87This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the... -
Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism by Scott Durham 9780804733366
RRP: $50.38$43.76Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in light of recent debates in literature, art, philosophy,...