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The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica by James J. Clauss
RRP: £34.00£26.97This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, "Who is the best of the Argonauts?" Apollonius redefines the... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World by Graham Pechey 9780415424196
RRP: £39.99£35.06Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts - both literary and cultural - and his practice of philosophy in literary... -
The Event of Postcolonial Shame by Timothy Bewes 9780691141664
RRP: £42.00£37.81In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past... -
Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins by Cristina Santos 9781498529655
RRP: £39.00£34.37Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins is a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary work that traces the construct of female monsters as an embodiment of socio-cultural fears of female sexuality and reproductive powers. This book... -
Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History by Pamela K. Gilbert
RRP: £47.00£40.88In Victorian Skin, Pamela K. Gilbert uses literary, philosophical, medical, and scientific discourses about skin to trace the development of a broader discussion of what it meant to be human in the nineteenth century. Where is subjectivity located? How... -
Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular by Martin Eisner
RRP: £30.99£19.99Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written... -
From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures by Janet Clare
RRP: £90.00£81.21Republic to restoration cuts across artificial divides between periods and disciplines,often imposed for reasons of convenience rather than reality. Challenging the traditional period divide of 1660, essays in this volume explore continuities with the... -
The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists by Michael Bell
RRP: £30.99£23.25A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each... -
Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim Thúy by Miléna Santoro 9780228017677
RRP: £31.00£27.36Kim Thuy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of international recognition that few Quebecois writers ever attain. The Vietnamese-born author's novels have garnered literary prize recognition and have been translated... -
French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War by Nicholas White
RRP: £84.99£74.25This book analyses the ways in which divorce informed the development of French fiction until the First World War, arguing that in France the divorce question was intimately related to the rhythm of revolution.Book InformationISBN 9781907975479Author... -
Shadows in a Chinese Landscape: Chi Yun's Notes from a Hut for Examining the Subtle Chi Yun 9780765601742
RRP: £49.99£43.50In this major undertaking David Keenan translates and contextualizes over 100 tales from the Notes from the Hut for Examining the Subtle, a collection of 1,200 tales and observations by Chi Yun, one of eighteenth century China's leading intellectuals. By... -
Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition Walt Whitman 9780415275446
RRP: £29.99£26.64This sourcebook includes the full text of Song of Myself. Since 1855, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself has been enjoyed, debated, parodied and imitated by readers, critics and artists crossing national and linguistic boundaries. Many argue that it is the... -
Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence by Vincent Sherry 9781107079328
RRP: £75.00£68.14In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary... -
Macbeth: New Critical Essays Nick Moschovakis 9781138828452
RRP: £47.99£41.81This volume offers a wealth of critical analysis, supported with ample historical and bibliographical information about one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular and globally influential plays. Its eighteen new chapters represent a broad spectrum of... -
T. S. Eliot by Harriet Davidson 9780582061538
£32.02One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot is generally regarded as a leading exponent of the literary movement which came to be known as Modernism. In this volume, Harriet Davidson collects key recent essays by such... -
A History of the Surrealist Novel by Anna Watz
£90.27A History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its twenty thematically organized chapters examine... -
Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market by Linda H. Peterson
RRP: £50.00£39.52During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. How did these women enter the literary profession; meet the demands of editors, publishers, booksellers, and reviewers; and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature by Crystal Parikh 9781108722209
RRP: £23.99£20.37Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently... -
Battle Royale Slam Book: Essays on the Cult Classic by Koushun Takami by Haikasoru 9781421565996
RRP: £9.99£7.03The cult phenomenon Battle Royale has been lauded as a masterpiece and decried as exploitative gore, but it's always remained in the public consciousness. This collection of essays by some of the best science fiction, horror, and thriller writers working... -
Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text and Transmission by Jacqueline Glomski 9780198737261
£102.48In the past few years, discussion of fiction in all sorts of media has intensified. The prominence of literary critics has increased, the awarding of lucrative book prizes has become more publicized, and reports of the formation of reading groups have... -
Towards Emancipation: German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century by Carol Diethe 9781571819321
RRP: £99.00£80.47No doubt, the feminist movement has come a long way, even though many of its aims have not been realized or, in fact, are still debated by its supporters and critics. It is sobering andinstructive to look back and examine the aspirations, achievements... -
Queer Forster by Robert K. Martin
RRP: £28.00£27.39This volume presents a revision of gay criticism and focuses on E.M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies. Many previous critics of Forster downplayed his homosexuality or read Forster in terms of gay liberation. This collection... -
The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination by Haiyan Lee
RRP: £58.00£50.57In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country once known as "a society of kith and kin." There... -
Literature and Social Justice: Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics, and Schema Criticism by Mark Bracher
RRP: £27.99£24.54Can reading social protest novels actually produce a more just world? Literature and Social Justice offers a scientifically informed, evidence-based affirmative answer to that crucial question, arguing that literature has the potential-albeit largely... -
Scottish Literature Since 1707 by Marshall Walker 9780582028920
£52.48Marshall Walker's lively and readable account of the highs and lows of Scottish literature from this important date to the present addresses the important themes of democracy, power and nationhood. Disposing of stereotypical ideas about Scotland and the... -
The Semiotics of Theater by Erika Fischer-Lichte
RRP: £31.00£27.76"The most thorough, systematic and convincing semiotics of the theater we have. . . . [L]ike those of Eco, it is an important conceptual synthesis, and a bibliographical gold mine." -Modern Language Notes" . . . impresses with its thoroughness and the... -
The Essential Criticism of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men by Michael J. Meyer 9780810867338
RRP: £79.00£69.74First published in 1937, Of Mice and Men has been a staple of American literature ever since. Divided by decade, The Essential Criticism of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men provides an overview of criticism over the 70 years the book has been in print... -
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies by Laura R. Kremmel
RRP: £70.00£56.57This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a... -
Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes 9780691173672
RRP: £28.00£21.80In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the... -
The International Companion to John Galt by Gerard Carruthers
RRP: £24.95£18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980274Author Gerard CarruthersFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Voice in Later Medieval English Literature: Public Interiorities by David Lawton 9780198792406
£81.25David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recreate them (as 'public... -
Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, Catriona and Treasure Island by Christopher MacLachlan 9780948877735
RRP: £6.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877735Author Christopher MacLachlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish... -
Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England by Ingrid Nelson
RRP: £58.00£50.17What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may seem misaligned with the other texts in manuscripts in which they are found. Yet in Lyric Tactics, Ingrid Nelson argues... -
Peripheral Desires: The German Discovery of Sex by Robert Deam Tobin
RRP: £74.00£64.85In Peripheral Desires, Robert Deam Tobin charts the emergence, from the 1830s through the early twentieth century, of a new vocabulary and science of human sexuality in the writings of literary authors, politicians, and members of the medical... -
The Theory of Criticism: From Plato to the Present: A Reader Raman Selden 9780582003286
RRP: £39.99£38.94This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic sections in which extracts from different writers and... -
Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Chris Jones 9780199577422
RRP: £39.99£39.81Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. Chapters deal with Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Edwin... -
Acts of Recognition: Essays on Medieval Culture by Lee Patterson
RRP: £29.99£26.50This volume brings together Lee Patterson's essays published in various venues over the past twenty-seven years. As he observes in his preface, "The one persistent recognition that emerged from writing these otherwise quite disparate essays is that... -
Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry by Anthony Hecht
£39.13Originally published in 2003. The fruit of a lifetime's reading and thinking about literature, its delights and its responsibilities, this book by acclaimed poet and critic Anthony Hecht explores the mysteries of poetry, offering profound insight into... -
Robert Browning by John Woolford 9780582096134
RRP: £46.99£35.82Robert Browning (1812-89) rivals Tennyson as the major Victorian poet with such important works as Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Men and Women, Dramatic Personae and the monumental The Ring and the Book. He is known for his development... -
Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger by Susan Bernstein
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into...