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Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes and Archetypes Pierre Brunel 9781138936010
RRP: £86.99£77.14First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essays, from Abraham to Zoroaster. Its coverage is international and draws on legends from prehistory to the... -
Jane Austen's Emma: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Paula Byrne 9780415286510
RRP: £29.99£26.64Emma is widely regarded as Jane Austen's most perfectly constructed novel. At once a comedy of misunderstanding, a razor-sharp analysis of the English class-system, a classic tale of moral growth, and a romance that combines sense with sensibility, it... -
The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature by Herschel Farbman 9780823228669
RRP: £23.99£21.16"I sleep, but my heart wakes," says the Song of Songs. "The other night" names the sleepless night we spend in dreams. From The Interpretation of Dreams to Finnegans Wake, many of the great writing projects of the first half of the twentieth century... -
Race and Romance: Coloring the Past by Margo Hendricks
RRP: £16.00£15.77This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue.Race and Romance: Coloring the Past explores the literary and cultural genealogy of colorism, white passing, and white presenting in the romance genre. The scope of the study... -
The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays Robert S. Miola 9780815338895
RRP: £37.99£33.78This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's AComedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of... -
Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women by Abena P.A. Busia 9780415073370
RRP: £49.99£43.50Theorizing Black Feminisms outlines some of the crucial debates going on within contemporary Black feminist activity. In doing so it brings together a collection of some of the most exciting work by contemporary Black women scholars, celebrating Black... -
Early Modern Women and the Poem by Susan Wiseman
RRP: £25.00£21.79Viewing the poem as a social agent and product in women's lives, the essays in this collection examine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland. The archival and theoretical... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Rebecca Stott 9780582404700
RRP: £54.99£52.88This volume will provide students with an introduction to the poetry and life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of the most popular poets of her day in Britain and America and who has become one of the great icons of Victorianism for the modern age. The... -
The Metaphysical Poets by David Reid 9780582298354
RRP: £49.99£47.84The Metaphysical Poets provides an introduction to the work of six strikingly various and original poets- Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell and Traherne. By closely examining how the poems work, the book aims to help readers at all stages of... -
Hermann Hesse: Life and Art by Joseph Mileck
RRP: £27.00£21.46"A critical biography far surpassing the previous ones." (Times Higher Education Supplement). "There are to be sure many writers whose biographies are more interesting than their fiction but Hesse is not one of these. He led a long and sometimes eventful... -
Saturnalia, Volume II: Books 3-5 Macrobius 9780674996717
RRP: £24.95£23.88An antiquarian's festival.The Saturnalia, Macrobius' encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a ... -
Unquiet Things: Secularism in the Romantic Age by Colin Jager
RRP: £70.00£60.71In Great Britain during the Romantic period, governmental and social structures were becoming more secular as religion was privatized and depoliticized. If the discretionary nature of religious practice permitted spiritual freedom and social... -
The Dynamics Of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African Feminist Literatures Susan Arndt 9780865438989
RRP: £29.95£19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438989Author Susan ArndtFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 323g -
Pennies on my eyes by Wilfred Owen 9781909747449
RRP: £9.99£7.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909747449Author Wilfred OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Two Rivers PressPublisher Two Rivers Press -
Books to Die for: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels by John Connolly 9781476710365
RRP: £19.00£12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476710365Author John ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 135mm * 38mm -
Women's Literary Networks and Romanticism: "A Tribe of Authoresses" by Andrew O. Winckles 9781786940605
£33.59An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. The eighteenth century witnessed the rapid expansion of social, political, religious and literary networks in Great Britain... -
Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics by Ben Glaser
RRP: £30.50£27.58Despite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification.In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as... -
On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura Lucretius 9780801850554
RRP: £30.00£26.95Titus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and died in the year 55. Little is known of his life, although two tantalizing bits of gossip were passed on by St. Jerome: that he was poisoned by a madness-inducing aphrodisiac... -
Pearl by the River by Sudipta Mitra
RRP: £7.00£5.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129144881Author Sudipta MitraFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power by Linden Peach 9780708319987
RRP: £6.99£5.64Presents a comparative study of fiction by late twentieth and twenty-first century women writers from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. This work is of interest to students interested in women's studies, gender studies, and cultural studies as well as... -
Chinese Lyricism: Shih Poetry from the Second to the Twelfth Century by Burton Watson
RRP: £35.00£27.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBurton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan:... -
Literary Cambridge by Lisa Sargood
RRP: £12.99£9.87This fully illustrated volume includes the celebrated figures and influential groups in English literature who knew Cambridge.Book InformationISBN 9780750922883Author Lisa SargoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The... -
The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Three: 1686-1696 by Paul Hammond
RRP: £33.99£32.96John Dryden was the greatest writer of Restoration England. These volumes are the third and fourth volumes in a five-volume edition of Dryden's poems and result from a complete reappraisal of the canon, text and context of his work. The modernised text... -
Lorca After Life by Noel Valis
RRP: £55.00£52.51A reflection on Federico Garcia Lorca's life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world "A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca's execution and his unknown... -
Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in Genre Film Kinga Foeldvary 9781526167132
RRP: £20.00£14.53The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly and reader-friendly, and its subject is fundamentally interdisciplinary, combining the findings of... -
Cultural Materialism: Theory and Practice Scott Wilson (Department of English at Lancaster University) 9780631185338
RRP: £40.95£36.17In recent years the left has transformed traditional approaches to literature and culture. Critical movements such as Cultural Materialism and New Historicism have succeeded to the point where they now constitute the new academic order. Scott Wilson... -
Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations by Simon During 9780823242559
RRP: £24.99£22.01This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it... -
King Lear: New Critical Essays Jeffrey Kahan (University of La Verne, USA) 9781138011519
RRP: £53.99£47.63Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare's original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander... -
Doubling and Incest / Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner by John T. Irwin
£25.46When it was first published, Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge proved to be a seminal work in the psychoanalytic study of Faulkner's fiction, especially of The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! This softcover reissue of John Irwin's... -
Twentieth-Century American Poetry Christopher MacGowan (College of William and Mary, Virginia) 9780631220268
RRP: £34.95£30.83Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry. Written by a... -
Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels by Hsu-Ming Teo
RRP: £27.99£24.14The Sheik-E. M. Hull's best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino-kindled "sheik fever" across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically "Oriental" swept through fashion, film, and... -
Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution by Rolf Hellebust 9780801488924
RRP: £29.99£26.50"That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good-or very bad-has not yet arrived. From our vantage point at least, no age appears to have had a deeper faith in the inevitability and imminence of such a total technological... -
Foucault and Literature: Towards a Geneaology of Writing by Simon During
RRP: £36.99£32.53The writings of the French historian, literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance to developments in literary studies since the late 1970s. He, more than anyone, stands behind the new historicism' and cultural... -
Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age by Andrew Piper 9780226103518
RRP: £21.00£20.31At the turn of the nineteenth century, publishing houses in London, New York, Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin produced books in ever greater numbers. But it was not just the advent of mass printing that created the era's "bookish" culture. According to... -
The Indian English Novel: Nation, History, and Narration by Priyamvada Gopal 9780199544387
£103.98The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. It is often... -
Perspectives on Ayn Rand's Contributions to Economic and Business Thought by Ed Younkins 9781498546119
RRP: £40.00£35.50Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on economic concepts and topics. This volume addresses the economic and business aspects of her writings. The authors of this anthology are from a variety of fields and all of them are enthusiastic supporters of her ideas... -
The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature: Writing with Facts by Alison James
RRP: £86.00£74.38The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and culminates in a proliferation of factual writings in the twenty-first. Focusing... -
Keywords;: For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c. by A Community of Inquiry 9780691181837
RRP: £14.99£12.15An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and cultureThe university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential institution. Bastions of free inquiry and a free society, engines... -
Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age by Victoria Stewart 9781316510001
RRP: £91.99£82.79The interwar period is often described as the 'Golden Age' of detective fiction, but many other kinds of crime writing, both factual and fictional, were also widely read during these years. Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the... -
Autofiction and Cultural Memory Hywel Dix 9781032322230
RRP: £45.99£40.13Autofiction and Cultural Memory breaks new ground in autofiction research by showing how it gives postcolonial writers a means of bearing witness to past cultural or political struggles, and hence of contributing to new forms of cultural memory.Most...