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The Culture of Equity in Early Modern England Mark Fortier 9781138257269
RRP: $104.98$92.06Elizabeth and James, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Bacon and Ellesmere, Perkins and Laud, Milton and Hobbes-this begins a list of early modern luminaries who write on 'equity'. In this study Mark Fortier addresses the concept of equity from early in... -
The Literary in Theory by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $46.18$40.93Has theory neglected literature? Often literary and cultural theory, which goes by the nickname "Theory," has seemed to be the theory of everything except literature: theory of language, of sexuality, of history, of the body, of the psyche, of meaning... -
Literary Infinities: Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction by Baylee Brits
RRP: $71.38$22.64Today, we have forgotten that mathematics was once aligned with the arts, rather than with the sciences. Literary Infinities analyses the connection between the late 19th-century revolution in the mathematics of the infinite and the literature of... -
Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference by Vivian R. Pollak
RRP: $121.80$106.20For Vivian R. Pollak, Emily Dickinson's work is an extended meditation on the risks of social, psychological, and aesthetic difference that would be taken up by the generations of women poets who followed her. She situates Dickinson's originality in... -
Ecstasy in the Classroom: Trance, Self, and the Academic Profession in Medieval Paris by Ayelet Even-Ezra
RRP: $65.10$57.46Can ecstatic experiences be studied with the academic instruments of rational investigation? What kinds of religious illumination are experienced by academically minded people? And what is the specific nature of the knowledge of God that university... -
Aliens Among Us by Timos Kamvysis 9781398475823
RRP: $14.68$11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398475823Author Timos KamvysisFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Modernist Intimacies by Elsa Högberg
RRP: $44.08$40.43Illuminates the new and unsettling forms of intimacy explored in modernist literature and art Opens up fresh perspectives on modernism as central to early twentieth-century explorations of new modes of intimacy, many of which shape today's social and... -
Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness by Michaela Hulstyn 9781487543761
RRP: $102.90$89.40Altered states of consciousness - including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence - can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood. Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive... -
The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Pavlac Glyer 9780873389914
RRP: $69.20$55.34This book offers a rare glimpse into the creative workings of the Inklings.The creators of Narnia and Middle-earth, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were close friends and professional colleagues. They met frequently with a community of fellow writers at... -
Magical Realism in West African Fiction by Brenda Cooper
RRP: $88.18$77.18This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana. Brenda Cooper... -
Wonder Woman by Noah Berlatsky
RRP: $65.10$61.07William Marston was an unusual man-a psychologist, a soft-porn pulp novelist, more than a bit of a carny, and the (self-declared) inventor of the lie detector. He was also the creator of Wonder Woman, the comic that he used to express two of his greatest... -
Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation by Rebecca Walkowitz 9780231137515
RRP: $58.80$45.78In this broad-ranging and ambitious intervention in the debates over the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of cosmopolitanism, Rebecca L. Walkowitz argues that modernist literary style has been crucial to new ways of thinking and acting beyond the nation... -
A Journey Through American Literature by Kevin J. Hayes 9780199862061
RRP: $45.13$40.97A vivid snapshot of America's kaleidoscopic literary tradition, A Journey Through American Literature illuminates the authors, works, and events that have shaped our cultural heritage. Kevin J. Hayes charts this history through a series of approachable... -
Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History by Lynne W. Hinojosa 9781032155371
RRP: $83.98$73.63Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can help readers receive the burdens of history-meaning both the burdens of the past, present, and future and the burden of living in time-and... -
Baudelaire and Freud by Leo Bersani
RRP: $71.40$64.83This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Short Form American Poetry: The Modernist Tradition by Will Montgomery
RRP: $44.08$41.06Reading a century of American poetry through the prism of short form, this book analyses the centrality of an aesthetic of brevity to American modernist verse. It begins with Imagism and devotes chapters to William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, Lorine... -
James Baldwin Review: Volume 1 by Douglas Field
RRP: $52.50$37.63The James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a... -
An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry by Earl Miner
RRP: $44.08$38.58The poetry written by the Japanese imperial court between A.D. 550 and 1350 is one of the great literatures of the world. The present volume, an introduction to that literature, is at once a condensation, a reorganization, and an extension (to A.D. 1500)... -
The Wonders of Creation: Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth by Kristen Page
RRP: $37.78$32.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514004357Author Kristen PageFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 11mm -
Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa by Mark Sanders 9780691191461
RRP: $42.00$33.37"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu... -
Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama by A. D. Cousins
RRP: $48.28$43.39Encompassing nearly a century of drama, this is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy. Considering the antecedents of the form in Roman, late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century... -
The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh by Sneharika Roy 9780367890438
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book demonstrates the epic genre's enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the 'postcolonial epic', ushered in by Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and... -
American Literature in Context after 1929 Philip R. Yannella (Temple University, USA) 9781405186001
RRP: $44.00$38.85American Literature in Context after 1929 American Literature in Context after 1929 is the perfect companion for readers who want to familiarize themselves with the historical events and literary movements that shaped American literature from the Great... -
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend by Joseph Bristow 9780821418383
RRP: $58.78$50.69Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer's reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his... -
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy by B.W. Powe
RRP: $62.98$56.07Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada's central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe,... -
Formalism and Marxism by Tony Bennett
RRP: $62.98$55.94Russian Formalism and Marxist criticism had a seismic impact on twentieth-century literary theory and the shockwaves are still felt today. First published in 1979, Tony Bennett's Formalism and Marxism created its own reverberations by offering a... -
Writing a New Environmental Era: Moving forward to nature Ken Hiltner 9780367143800
RRP: $79.78$70.10Writing a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature. Consequently, we need to stop thinking about going back... -
Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young Chiara Briganti 9781138379091
RRP: $96.58$84.27Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young provides a valuable analytical model for reading a large body of modernist works by women, who have suffered not only from a lack of critical attention but from the assumption that experimental... -
Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community Simon J. White 9780754657538
RRP: $193.18$167.58Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century... -
Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus Theocritus 9780520235601
RRP: $149.10$132.24Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus' poem in praise of Philadelphus - at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh... -
Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction: An Analytical History LeRoy Lad Panek 9781476687520
RRP: $83.98$69.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476687520Author Leroy Lad PanekFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g -
Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (A Second Printing) by Charles E. Bressler
RRP: $207.40$184.84Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 5/e presents the thirteen basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in their historical and philosophical contexts. Unlike other introductions to literary criticism, this... -
Choosing Not Choosing Sharon Cameron 9780226092348
RRP: $63.00$61.43Although Emily Dickinson copied and bound her poems into manuscript notebooks, in the century since her death her poems have been read as single lyrics with little or no regard for the context she created for them in her fascicles. Choosing Not Choosing... -
Kafka: In Light of the Accident by Howard Caygill
$85.72By challenging many of the assumptions, misguided presuppositions and even legends that have surrounded the legacy and reception of Franz Kafka's work during the 20th century, Howard Caygill provides us with a radical new way of reading Kafka. Kafka:... -
Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind by Leonard Jackson
RRP: $113.38$108.28At a time when psychoanalysis is attacked by biologists, psychologists and literary critics alike, this book offers a radical defence.Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind gives a clear introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung,... -
Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo by Susan Napier
RRP: $37.70$30.66Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo and the ever-disturbing Mishima Yukio have explored twentieth-century Japanese alienation with an unsparing eye and savage humor. In Escape from the Wasteland, Susan J. Napier examines their vivid and often perverse... -
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature by Elizabeth Webby
RRP: $79.78$68.40This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective... -
An Anthology of Russian Women's Writing 1777-1992 by Catriona Kelly
RRP: $252.00$251.33This is the first systematic historical anthology of Russian women's writing to appear in any language. At a time of growing interest, both in the West and in Russia itself, the Anthology provides a radically new sense of the dynamic development of... -
The Absurd in Literature by Neil Cornwell
RRP: $168.00$119.89Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary... -
Beyond Elegy: Classical Arabic Women's Poetry in Context by Marle Hammond 9780197264720
RRP: $126.00$125.20This volume tackles complex theoretical questions about sex and gender and the way that they inform classical Arabic poetics. Arabic literature has a rich tradition of women's poetry, and of lamentation for the dead in particular. Dr Hammond argues that...