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Dawn to the West: A History of Japanese Literature: Japanese Literature of the the Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism by Donald Keene 9780231114394
RRP: £45.00£35.72-- Los Angeles TimesThe fourth book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by one of the world's most accomplished translators and scholars of Japanese culture and literature, this volume offers unparalleled insight into Japanese poetry,... -
Commedia dell' Arte and the Mediterranean: Charting Journeys and Mapping 'Others' by Erith Jaffe-Berg
RRP: £39.99£35.06Drawing on published collections and also manuscripts from Mantuan archives, Commedia dell' arte and the Mediterranean locates commedia dell' arte as a performance form reflective of its cultural crucible in the Mediterranean. The study provides a broad... -
The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery Wolfgang Clemen 9780415612203
RRP: £43.99£38.44First published in 1951. The edition reprints the second, updated, edition, of 1977. When first published this book quickly established itself as the standard survey of Shakespeare's imagery considered as an integral part of the development of... -
Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy by Kirk Ormand 9780292760523
RRP: £19.99£17.54Marriage is a central concern in five of the seven extant plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this pathfinding study, Kirk Ormand delves into the ways in which these plays represent and problematize marriage, thus offering insights into how... -
Euripides by Judith Mossman 9780198721840
£57.30Few ancient authors are as challenging as Euripides, and few have provoked so many diverse critical opinions through the ages: Aristotle described him as 'most tragic', and yet many of his plays have been condemned by critics as barely qualifying as... -
Catholic Culture in Early Modern England by Ronald Corthell
RRP: £32.00£28.21This collection of essays explores the survival of Catholic culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England-a time of Protestant domination and sometimes persecution. Contributors examine not only devotional, political, autobiographical, and other... -
Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism by Alexander Tyrell Davis 9781900621373
RRP: £22.00£21.05This is a study of one of the most important poets of the mid 20th-century. At the time of his death, Denis Devlin was Irish ambassador to Italy. This book looks at Devlin's work within the aftermath of the Irish literary revival and Anglo-American and... -
Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift Cristina Malcolmson 9781138269576
RRP: £53.99£46.87Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observation, Cristina Malcolmson provides the first book-length examination of studies of skin color in the... -
Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War by Andrew N. Rubin 9780691154152
RRP: £42.00£33.04Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's often covert patronage of the... -
Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism by Garrick Davis
RRP: £20.99£18.37Marked by a rigorously close textual reading, detached frombiographical or other extratextual material, New Criticism was thedominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. Since thattime, schools of literary criticism have arisen in support of or... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by Robert S. Levine
RRP: £22.99£18.45The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and provide a complete overview of Melville's career. Melville's major novels are... -
The Unknown Relatives: The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel by Monika Mazurek
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Unknown Relatives analyses a large body of Victorian literary texts dealing with the topic of Catholicism and Catholics, written from the non-Catholic perspective. The readings of these texts are inspired by psychoanalytic criticism, primarily by the... -
Witness, Warning, and Prophecy - Quaker Women`s Writing, 1655-1700 Teresa Feroli 9780866985840
RRP: £48.00£46.39The forty texts collected in this volume offer a small but representative sample of Quaker women's tremendous literary output between 1655 and 1700. They include examples of key Quaker literary genres - proclamations, directives, warnings, sufferings,... -
Writing by Ear: Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel by Marilia Librandi 9781487502140
RRP: £64.00£51.86Considering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector's literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According... -
Trance-Migrations: Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis by Lee Siegel
RRP: £17.00£16.68Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn't. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out loud... -
Joseph Conrad: A Psychoanalytic Biography by Bernard Constant Meyer 9780691621302
RRP: £58.00£45.18Joseph Conrad once voiced the hope that from the reading of his pages might "emerge at last the vision of a personality: the man behind the books ...a coherent justifiable personality both in its origin and its actions." Dr. Meyer arrives at a unified... -
Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned by Patrick O'Connor
RRP: £90.00£81.97Explains Cormac McCarthy's consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output.About the AuthorPatrick O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Staffordshire University.Book InformationISBN 9781474497268Author Patrick... -
The GDR Remembered - Representations of the East German State since 1989 by Nick Hodgin
RRP: £95.00£91.08Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the consequences of the country's divided past continue to be debated. The legacy of the German Democratic Republic occupies a major role in German popular culture, with audiences flocking to films claiming... -
The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies by Lukas Erne 9781350225190
£38.75The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on all the major areas of current... -
Till Eulenspiegel: His Adventures Anonymous 9780415937634
RRP: £36.99£32.53A classic fable of German literature, Till Eulenspiegel is a cheerfully scatological collection of 95 loosely related vignettes depicting the life and times of a famous roving jester.About the AuthorPaul Oppenheimer is Professor of English and Medieval... -
The Art of History: Unlocking the Past in Fiction and Nonfiction by Christopher Bram 9781555977436
RRP: £12.00£7.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977436Author Christopher BramFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 175mm *... -
Shakespeare: Becoming Human by Rudolf Steiner 9781855845244
RRP: £9.99£8.17'Like so much of Renaissance Art, Shakespeare's work bears an open secret. The esoteric spiritual content is undisguised, though it may be unexpected and not always immediately recognized. And, like all the great artistic achievements...this work remains... -
Shakespeare and Modern Theatre: The Performance of Modernity Michael Bristol 9780415219853
RRP: £17.99£16.04The book gathers together a particularly strong line-up of contributors from across the literary-performative divide to examine the relationship between Shakespeare, the 'culture industries', modernism and live performance.About the AuthorMichael... -
Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by Clare Costley King'Oo
RRP: £29.99£26.50In Miserere Mei, Clare Costley King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. During this period, the Penitential Psalms inspired an enormous... -
Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature by Ming Dong Gu
RRP: £45.99£41.13The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature presents a comprehensive overview of Chinese literature from the 1910s to the present day. Featuring detailed studies of selected masterpieces, it adopts a thematic-comparative approach. By developing... -
The Cottagers of Glenburnie: And Other Educational Writing by Elizabeth Hamilton
RRP: £9.95£7.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877865Author Elizabeth HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish... -
The History of Science Fiction and Its Toy Figurines by Luigi Toiati 9781399005548
RRP: £40.00£30.00Science fiction, as the name suggests, is the combination of science and fantasy. In addition to a literary form, it also encompasses film, TV, comics, toys and our beloved toy astronauts, or other figures such as aliens, monsters and other playable... -
Samuel Pepys and his Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703 by Kate Loveman 9780198732686
RRP: £110.00£99.81Samuel Pepys was a great collector of books, news, and gossip. This study uses his surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late seventeenth century. Offering the first extensive history of reading... -
The Life of William Wordsworth: A Critical Biography by John Worthen
RRP: £93.95£81.87By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth's early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet's most creative period of life and writing. Features new research into Wordsworth's... -
American Culture in the 1970s by Will Kaufman
RRP: £27.99£26.01The 1970s was one of the most culturally vibrant periods in American history. This book discusses the dominant cultural forms of the 1970s - fiction and poetry; television and drama; film and visual culture; popular music and style; public space and... -
Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence by Michele Mendelssohn
RRP: £90.00£78.81This groundbreaking, cross-generic collection is the first to consider the entire breadth of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning writing. Focused through the concept of influence, the volume addresses critical issues surrounding the work of... -
Beckett and Sade by Jean-Michel Rabate
RRP: £17.00£14.72Much has been written on Beckett and Sade, yet nothing systematic has been produced. This Element is systematic by adopting a chronological order, which is necessary given the complexity of Beckett's varying assessments of Sade. Beckett mentioned Sade... -
Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader by Susan Manning 9780748622870
RRP: £31.00£29.09The first volume of critical texts to define the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies This Reader provides 42 exemplary readings that map the theoretical and literary aspects of this growing cross-disciplinary subject area. In a substantial... -
The Futures of Medieval French - Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay by Jane Gilbert 9781843845959
RRP: £110.00£104.74Essays on aspects of medieval French literature, celebrating the scholarship of Sarah Kay and her influence on the field. Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions... -
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century by Charles LaPorte
RRP: £79.99£72.16In the Victorian era, William Shakespeare's work was often celebrated as a sacred text: a sort of secular English Bible. Even today, Shakespeare remains a uniquely important literary figure. Yet Victorian criticism took on religious dimensions that now... -
An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema by James Chandler
RRP: £42.00£40.81In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture - a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people's very... -
The Henry vi Plays by Stuart Hampton-Reeves 9780719056772
RRP: £85.00£60.17The Henry VI plays are Shakespeare's earliest, most theatrically exciting plays and in their day, they were among his most popular works. In a story which stretches over thirty years, Shakespeare dramatises the fall of the House of Lancaster and creates... -
Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction Steven Cohan 9780415013871
RRP: £36.99£32.53Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel of a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and... -
Raymond Chandler by Anthony Fowles 9781906075873
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075873Author Anthony FowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form by Gordon Pocock 9780521098144
RRP: £30.99£23.80Corneille and Racine may seem like marble monuments of an unchanging typical classicism. Mr Pocock is concerned to show that each of these great dramatists was a living writer, struggling to create developing forms and that the rules of neo-classical...