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Religion in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands Manuel Broncano 9781138654471
RRP: $92.38$80.72This 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
$80.01Apologies 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)... -
Mary Prince, Slavery and Print Culture in the Anglophone Atlantic World by Juliet Shields
RRP: $35.70$30.91This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the publication of The History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts Prince's experiences as an enslaved person in the West Indies and the events that brought her to seek assistance from the... -
Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet's Ace Reporter by Tim Hanley 9781613733325
RRP: $44.00$36.31In 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:... -
Alice Munro's Miraculous Art: Critical Essays by Janice Fiamengo
$63.38Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings. The volume covers the entirety of Munro's career, from the first stories she published in the early 1950s as an undergraduate at the... -
Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation by Sorcha Gunne 9780415896689
RRP: $96.58$84.27The 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... -
American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance by John T. Irwin 9781421421155
RRP: $90.30$80.68The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol,... -
Fashioning Gothic Bodies by Catherine Spooner 9780719064012
RRP: $41.98$39.40This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s.About the AuthorCatherine Spooner is Lecturer in English... -
The Modernist Papers by Fredric Jameson
$60.92The Modernist Papers is a tour de force of analysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jameson discusses modernist poetics, including the... -
Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace': Volume 5 by Gill Plain
RRP: $189.00$174.34A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation This new study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged... -
True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England by Ms Frances E. Dolan 9780812244854
RRP: $130.20$114.20In the motley ranks of seventeenth-century print, one often comes upon the title True Relation. Purportedly true relations describe monsters, miracles, disasters, crimes, trials, and apparitions. They also convey discoveries achieved through exploration... -
Modernist Literature by Potter
RRP: $50.38$45.89Introduces 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: $75.58$66.55Nineteenth-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: $61.93$57.02A 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: $58.80$45.78An 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... -
The Continuity of the Conquest: Charlemagne and Anglo-Norman Imperialism by Wendy Marie Hoofnagle
RRP: $71.30$63.71The Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized culture, replacing a tribal Germanic society and its customs with more refined Continental practices. Many of... -
Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England by Eoin Bentick
RRP: $168.00$160.88Explores 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: $63.00$60.86Narrative 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: $71.38$63.00First 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... -
Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature by Sarah Daw
RRP: $50.38$45.89Compelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range of Cold War fiction and poetry.Book InformationISBN 9781474430036Author Sarah DawFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh... -
Salonnieres, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France by Anne E Duggan
RRP: $69.30$60.54The original edition of Salonnieres, Furies, and Fairies, published in 2005, was a pathbreaking work of early modern literary history, exploring women's role in the rise of the fairy tale and their use of this new genre to carve out roles as major... -
Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh by Ian Duncan 9780691144269
RRP: $58.80$53.26Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the... -
The Sense of Early Modern Writing: Rhetoric, Poetics, Aesthetics by Mark Robson
RRP: $63.00$44.75In 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... -
Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr by Dora Osborne 9780367601935
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book offers the first full-length study of W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the traumatic traces of National Socialism. It examines the different ways in which the traces of a traumatic past mark their narratives... -
Re-inventing Japan: Nation, Culture, Identity Tessa Morris-Suzuki 9780765600820
RRP: $115.48$100.21This 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: $77.68$68.31Perhaps 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... -
My Strangled City Gordon Rohlehr 9781845234379
RRP: $41.98$29.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845234379Author Gordon RohlehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd -
Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski 9781501740473
RRP: $33.58$29.90"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"-the terms designating those born by Caesarean section in medieval and Renaissance Europe were mysterious and ambiguous. Examining representations of Caesarean birth in legend and art and tracing its history... -
The Modern Construction of Myth by Andrew Von Hendy
RRP: $73.50$65.39". . . one of the richest, clearest, and acutest surveys to date of the course of theorizing about myth from the eighteenth century on. I know of no more useful volume on the topic. Despite the postmodern connotations of the title, Von Hendy is writing... -
Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Herv Guibert by Michael Lucey 9780226606217
RRP: $54.60$52.19Imagine 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: $69.28$61.24Originally 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... -
The Stylistic Development of Keats Walter Jackson Bate 9781138990081
RRP: $41.98$37.72This study, first published in 1945, gives a precise description of the unfolding of a great poet's craftsmanship and suggests alignments of the technical progression with the changes of the mind.Metrical analysis is given in order to throw light on... -
Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays by Jason Fisher 9780786464821
RRP: $31.48$27.72Over 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 Public Intellectual Helen Small (Pembroke College, Oxford) 9780631231981
RRP: $88.10$77.13New essays by prestigious thinkers such as Edward Said, Bruce Robbins, Jacqueline Rose, and Stefan Collini on the public role of writers and intellectuals.About the AuthorHelen Small is Fellow in English Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. She is... -
A Concise Companion to Realism Matthew Beaumont (University College, London, UK) 9781444332070
RRP: $77.60$68.27A Concise Companion to Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the visual arts is also addressed. Comprises 17... -
A Fire of Lilies: Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
$140.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283292Author Ahmad Karimi-HakkakFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations by Alexander Regier
$179.97Exorbitant 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
$207.52Karen 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: $41.98$36.98This 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 ... -
Graham Swift by Daniel Lea 9780719068379
RRP: $41.98$36.98This 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'...