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Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher 9780231162647
RRP: $63.00$48.91Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a... -
One Man Show: Poetics and Presence in the <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i> by Katherine Kretler
RRP: $44.00$35.99This book plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. Despite academic focus on orality and on composition in performance, we have yet to fully appreciate the Iliad and Odyssey as the sophisticated scripts that they are. What... -
Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis by Sally Robinson 9780231112932
RRP: $58.80$45.78White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike,... -
Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England Jennifer Summit 9780226781716
RRP: $168.00$161.72In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which... -
The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age by David Palumbo-Liu
RRP: $44.08$38.58The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing... -
Cell Tower by Steven E. Jones
RRP: $20.98$16.57Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel latticework or tapered monopoles, encrusted with fiberglass antennas, cell towers raise up high into the... -
Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology by Andrew Hadfield 9780198871552
RRP: $220.50$207.02A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the... -
The Italian Idea: Anglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815-1823 by Will Bowers
RRP: $189.00$172.35From 1815 to 1823 the Italian influence on English literature was at its zenith. While English tourists flocked to Italy, a pervasive Italianism coloured many facets of London life, including poetry, periodicals, translation, and even the Queen's trial... -
Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination: Salome's Dance After 1890 by Megan Girdwood
RRP: $54.58$49.52An account of Salome's dance and its centrality within modernist performance Offers a new account of the Salome myth that underlines its centrality to modernist performance across different genres and forms, including drama, dance, and silent film ... -
Close Reading the Anthropocene by Helena Feder
RRP: $77.68$68.31Reading poetry and prose, images and art, literary and critical theory, science and cultural studies, Close Reading the Anthropocene explores the question of meaning, its importance and immanent potential for loss, in the new geological epoch of the... -
The Imperial Experience: From Carlyle to Forster by C. C. Eldridge
$82.13This book examines attitudes towards empire and the creation and perpetuation of a British world-view during the years 1834-1924. Besides focusing on the usual Victorian and Edwardian novelists and poets, surveys of popular culture and anti-empire views... -
Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to the Present Simon Kemp 9781138717053
RRP: $79.78$70.10"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think... and I can't stop myself from thinking." - Jean-Paul Sartre, NauseaWriting the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to Darrieussecq explores the works of seven... -
Posthuman Gothic by Anya Heise-Von Der Lippe 9781786831064
RRP: $178.50$146.64Posthuman Gothic is an edited collection of thirteen chapters, and offers a structured, dialogical contribution to the discussion of the posthuman Gothic. Contributors explore the various ways in which posthuman thought intersects with Gothic textuality... -
Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form by Stanley Corngold 9781501727795
RRP: $33.58$29.90In Stanley Corngold's view, the themes and strategies of Kafka's fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka's work in light of "the necessity of form," which is... -
Literature and Culture in Modern Britain: Volume Three: 1956 - 1999 by Clive Bloom 9780582075528
RRP: $75.58$73.96British culture has changed almost beyond recognition since 1956. Angry young men have been displaced by Yuppies, Elvis by the Spice Girls, and meat and two veg by continental cuisine. What is more, as the death of Diana, Princess of Wales showed, the... -
Who Is a Muslim?: Orientalism and Literary Populisms by Maryam Wasif Khan
RRP: $65.10$57.90Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan-popular novels, short stories, television serials-is formed... -
Patrick Hamilton by John Harding 9781871551990
RRP: $25.18$25.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551990Author John HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
The Solomonic Corpus of 'Wisdom' and Its Influence by Katharine J. Dell 9780198861560
RRP: $205.80$181.78Solomon is the figurehead who holds the family of 'wisdom' texts together. In this study, Katharine Dell argues that a core of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes forms the inner sanctum of the 'Solomonic wisdom corpus', with the Song of Songs as a close relative,... -
A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory by Peter Brooker 9780134425672
$129.86This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with... -
Shakespeare's Theatre: A History Richard Dutton (Ohio State University) 9781405115131
RRP: $140.60$122.24Shakespeare's Theatre: A History examines the theatre spaces used by William Shakespeare, and explores these spaces in relation to the social and political framework of the Elizabethan era. The text journeys from the performing spaces of the provincial... -
Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism: The Haunting Interval Luke Thurston (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK) 9781138016217
RRP: $113.38$98.43This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological... -
Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape, 1586-95 by Anne R. Sweeney 9780719074189
RRP: $178.50$127.20It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwell's poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspective of a priest-hole. This book dismantles that idea by examining the poetry, word by word, discovering... -
Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons by Lisa Siraganian
RRP: $203.70$184.44Long before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "speak" with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), they elaborated the legal fiction of American corporate personhood in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific... -
Piece of the Action: A Klondike’s Circus Novel by Nathan Woolford 9781528990134
RRP: $27.28$19.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528990134Author Nathan WoolfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Precarious Times: Temporality and History in Modern German Culture by Anne Fuchs
RRP: $54.58$47.23In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of... -
Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium by Janet Wilson
RRP: $79.78$70.10Rerouting the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture.Bringing together a... -
A Companion to Victorian Poetry Ciaran Cronin 9781405176125
RRP: $96.50$86.33This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of... -
The Shadow-Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad 9781107024427
RRP: $222.60$190.47Joseph Conrad's short novel The Shadow-Line: A Confession (1917) is one of the key works of early twentieth-century fiction. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, and published as part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of... -
Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays by Matthew Sergi
RRP: $54.60$52.19Amid the crowded streets of Chester, guild players portraying biblical characters performed on colorful mobile stages hoping to draw the attention of fellow townspeople. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these Chester plays employed flamboyant... -
The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Four: 1686-1696 Paul Hammond 9781032477954
RRP: $71.38$69.22Volume 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: $83.98$73.63The 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: $67.20$65.33More 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... -
Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge by Angus Vine 9780198809708
$201.16This 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... -
Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos by Kim Addonizio 9780446679046
RRP: $35.68$32.49Previously considered the domain of bikers and a rite of passage in the services, tattoos have crawled out society's fringes and onto the ankles of starlets and the biceps of bankers. In this volume writers like Herman Melville, Elizabeth McCracken, Ray... -
Covering Darkness: Writing True Crime by Neil Root 9781910996225
RRP: $20.98$20.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996225Author Neil RootFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance: Negotiating Consent, Gender, and Desire Hannah Piercy (Person) 9781843846727
RRP: $52.48$50.23This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire. Medieval romance is usually considered a genre that celebrates love, desire, and sexuality within marriage. However, moments of... -
Shakespeare and Immigration Ruben Espinosa 9781138260979
RRP: $113.38$98.43Shakespeare 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: $41.98$30.49Shakespeare'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 Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE by William M. Reddy 9780226706276
RRP: $84.00$81.80In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a... -
The Qur`an in Sixteenth Century Spain: Six Morisco Versions of Sura 79 by Consuelo Lopez-Morillas
RRP: $168.00$160.88Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Language of the Texts Tapsir The Texts Glossary Photographs of the Texts Bibliography and AbbreviationsBook InformationISBN 9780729301213Author Consuelo Lopez-MorillasFormat HardbackPage...