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Brian Friel by Scott Boltwood
£29.07This essential guide provides a deeply informed survey of the criticism of all the plays and major stories authored by Brian Friel. Scott Boltwood introduces readers to the key themes that have been used to characterise Friel's entire career, moving... -
Wounds & Words: Childhood & Family Trauma in Romantic & Postmodern Fiction by Christa Schonfelder
RRP: £47.99£39.11Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first psychiatrists influenced each others' investigations of the "wounded mind". This book... -
The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader by Sophie Corser
RRP: £90.00£73.28The Reader's Joyce engages with core issues of literary studies by rethinking accepted literary, critical, and theoretical notions of the relationships between author, reader and text. Sophie Corser describes and queries the activity of reading prompted... -
Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller 9780804784085
£38.87This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen... -
The Great War and Postmodern Memory: The First World War in Late 20 th -Century British Fiction (1985-2000) by Virginie Renard 9782875741004
RRP: £37.70£33.26The end of the twentieth century was marked in Britain by a renewal of academic and public interest in the Great War, which remains one of the most defining historical events in British national consciousness. Focusing on questions of memory, this book... -
Fundamental Concepts of Children's Literature Research: Literary and Sociological Approaches Hans-Heino Ewers 9780415896481
RRP: £53.99£46.87In this book, Ewers provides students and professors with a new system of categorization for a differentiated description of children's literature. In the early 1970s, Swedish children's literature scholar Goete Kingberg worked to establish a system of... -
Twentieth-Century Victorian: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Strand Magazine, 1891-1930 by Jonathan Cranfield
RRP: £28.99£26.91Tells of the relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and the Strand Magazine, the aftermath of the success of Sherlock Holmes and the impact of that on both author and publication as they moved into the early twentieth century.About the AuthorJonathan... -
Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen by Adela Pinch 9780804736565
RRP: £23.99£20.84This book contends that when late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. It explores the paradoxes of representing feelings... -
The Essential Aeneid by Virgil 9780872207905
RRP: £11.99£10.02Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended passages seamlessly fitted together with narrative bridges... -
Against the Tide: The Story of the Adomnan of Iona by Warren Bardsley 9781905010240
RRP: £10.50£7.98Tells the story of the Adomnan of Iona, author of the early medieval classic "Life of Columba" and revered composer and promulgator of the seventh century 'Law of the Innocents' ensuring the protection of non-combatants in times of war.Book... -
The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan by Eric Cheyfitz
RRP: £23.99£20.84Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Cheyfitz charts the course of American imperialism from the arrival of Europeans in a New World open for material and rhetorical cultivation to the violent foreign ventures of twentieth-century... -
Jorge Luis Borges, Post-Analytic Philosophy, and Representation by Silvia G. Dapia 9780367874056
RRP: £39.99£35.06Making an important contribution to studies in Literature and Philosophy, this book reads Jorge Luis Borges philosophically, particularly in reference to his use of representation and reality. Rather than attempting to subordinate Borges to a set of... -
Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution by Marina Grishakova
RRP: £62.00£54.38The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches, this volume takes a step toward... -
Nobel Writers on Writing Ottar G. Draugsvold 9780786466092
RRP: £21.99£18.83Since its inception, the Nobel Prize for literature has given a very public voice to some of the world's greatest writers, and their responses to the honor--their acceptance speeches--have often been epochal. From the famed call to arms by William... -
The English Novel in History 1700-1780 by John Richetti
RRP: £37.99£33.38The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the... -
Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human by Deborah Christie
RRP: £35.00£30.74The zombie is ubiquitous in popular culture: from comic books to video games, to internet applications and homemade films, zombies are all around us. Investigating the zombie from an interdisciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on deep analytical... -
Benjamin's Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque by Jane O. Newman 9780801476594
RRP: £33.00£29.05In Benjamin's Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin's notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in... -
Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture by Dana Gioia 9781555973704
RRP: £14.99£11.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555973704Author Dana GioiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 388g -
The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives by Nigel Harris
RRP: £54.99£54.73The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives examines a wide range of texts to argue in favour of a thirteenth-century animal turn which not only generated a heightened scholarly awareness of animals but also had... -
Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: Philosophical Dimensions by Nir Eyal 9780190082543
RRP: £79.00£61.85The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is one of the largest-scale research collaborations in global health, distilling a wide range of health information to provide estimates and projections for more than 350 diseases, injuries, and risk factors in... -
Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts Dr Rachel Scott (Customer) 9781897747384
RRP: £60.00£56.70At a time when the discourse of a clash of civilisations has been re-grounded anew in scaremongering and dog-whistle politics over a Hispanic "challenge" to America and a Muslim "challenge" to European societies, and in the context of the War on Terror... -
Queer Times, Queer Becomings by E. L. McCallum 9781438437736
RRP: £72.27£63.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438437736Author E. L. McCallumFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre by M. A. Katritzky
RRP: £85.00£60.17This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres. Its twelve essays compose a complex image of theatre connections as a socially, economically, politically... -
Yeats and Modern Poetry by Edna Longley 9781107622333
RRP: £23.99£20.70Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats' presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely... -
Inventions of the Imagination: Romanticism and Beyond by Richard T. Gray
RRP: £27.99£24.14The dialectic between reason and imagination forms a key element in Romantic and post- Romantic philosophy, science, literature, and art. Inventions of the Imagination explores the diverse theories and assessments of this dialectic in essays by... -
Animal Subjects: Volume 1 by Caroline Hovanec 9781108428392
RRP: £90.00£81.03Animal Subjects identifies a new understanding of animals in modernist literature and science. Drawing on Darwin's evolutionary theory, British writers and scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries began to think of animals as... -
Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking by Cord J. Whitaker 9780812251586
RRP: £83.00£71.54In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white-or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the... -
The Making of Samuel Beckett's Play/Comedie and Film by Olga Beloborodova
£38.75Samuel Beckett's short play Play / Comedie and his only film Film were written around the same time (1962-1963). They both have self-referential titles that invite meditation on the genres they represent. Although medium-specific opportunities and... -
Shakespeare Valued: Education Policy and Pedagogy by Sarah Olive 9781783204380
RRP: £70.95£68.00Taking a comprehensive, critical, and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in educational policy and pedagogy from 1989 (the year compulsory Shakespeare was introduced under the National Curriculum for English in the United Kingdom), to the... -
Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms by Lisa Lowe
RRP: £15.99£14.46Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the... -
Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era that Shaped his Masterpiece by Andrew Levy 9781439186978
RRP: £17.00£11.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439186978Author Andrew LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm... -
France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades by Daniel H. Weiss 9780801878237
£47.82Few periods in history have captured the public imagination than the Crusades. The Crusaders cut a rakish, Romantic image, as chivalrous knights go off to liberate the Holy Land, to make the world a safer place for Christian pilgrims. But who, really,... -
Ghostwriting Modernism by Helen Sword
RRP: £27.99£24.14Spiritualism is often dismissed by literary critics and historians as merely a Victorian fad. Helen Sword demonstrates that it continued to flourish well into the twentieth century and seeks to explain why. Literary modernism, she maintains, is replete... -
Anxious Men: Masculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth Century by Clive Baldwin 9781474494892
RRP: £20.99£19.25Christopher Watkin provides the first comprehensive introduction to Serres' thought from The System of Leibniz (1968) through to his final publications in 2019. Working from the original French, he engages with both translated and major untranslated... -
Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature: The Architectural Void Patricia Garcia (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781138547766
RRP: £45.99£40.13Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of... -
A Companion to T. S. Eliot David E. Chinitz (Loyola University Chicago) 9781118647097
RRP: £37.95£33.76Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh... -
Saint Lucian Writers and Writing: An Author Index: Published Works of Poetry, Prose, Drama by John Robert Lee
RRP: £9.99£7.20This "magnificent act of scholarship" is a comprehensive author index of poetry, prose (fiction and non-fiction) and drama from the eastern Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. It also includes supporting materials, such as dissertations and critical works,... -
The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica by James J. Clauss
RRP: £34.00£19.17This 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... -
Reading Literature in Portuguese: Commentaries in Honour of Tom Earle by Claudia Pazos Alonso
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book brings together textual commentaries in English and Portuguese on thirty representative works of literature in Portuguese - either complete poems or extracts from longer works.About the AuthorClaudia Pazos AlonsoBook InformationISBN... -
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...