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American Culture in the 1970s by Will Kaufman
RRP: $58.78$54.62The 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: $189.00$165.50This 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... -
Forms of Speech in Victorian Fiction by Raymond Chapman 9780582087453
RRP: $81.88$62.24Forms of Speech in Victorian Fiction examines how Victorian writers used dialogue in the presentation of characters and the relationships between them, and its contribution to the work as a whole. Quoting over a hundred novels of the period, including... -
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: A Publishing History Zoe Jaques 9781138246799
RRP: $104.98$91.35Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer a detailed and nuanced account of... -
Beckett and Sade by Jean-Michel Rabate
RRP: $35.70$30.91Much 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... -
Odes and Elegies by Freidrich Holderlin 9780819511904
RRP: $25.10$24.95For more than a century, Friedrich Hoelderlin has been considered one of the key figures in modern European literature. The translations in Odes and Elegies, including poems never before available in English, render forcefully and directly the deep... -
Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons by Sarah Prescott 9780708320532
RRP: $20.98$16.38Examines Welsh writing in English in the context of critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the 'invention' of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century. This study investigates the ways in which Anglophone literature... -
Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader by Susan Manning 9780748622870
RRP: $65.10$60.61The 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... -
Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
RRP: $63.00$57.86From a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best-loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as tumultuous as any he created in his teeming novels of life in Victorian England... -
The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley
$61.05How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and 2010. This volume explores how the socio-political... -
The Futures of Medieval French - Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay by Jane Gilbert 9781843845959
RRP: $231.00$219.95Essays 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: $167.98$151.54In 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: $88.20$85.70In 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: $178.50$126.36The 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: $77.68$68.31Telling 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: $35.68$31.73Apologies 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: $65.08$49.98Corneille 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... -
Shakespeare and the Gods by Virginia Mason Vaughan
$58.34Now available in paperback, Shakespeare and the Gods examines Shakespeare's many allusions to six classical gods (Jupiter, Diana, Venus, Mars, Hercules and Ceres) that enhance his readers' and audiences' understanding and enjoyment of his work. Vaughan... -
Tolkien's Intellectual Landscape by E. L. Risden 9780786498659
RRP: $31.48$26.36The work of J.R.R. Tolkien has had a profound effect on contemporary fiction and film making, yet criticism often places him at the margins of twentieth- and twenty-first century thought and experience. He actually sits near the centre of the last... -
Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines by Susan McHugh 9780816670338
RRP: $46.18$40.93Beginning with a historical account of why animal stories pose endemic critical challenges to literary and cultural theory, Animal Stories argues that key creative developments in narrative form became inseparable from shifts in animal politics and... -
A Legend of the Wars of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott 9780748605729
RRP: $199.50$181.55Against the background of Montrose's campaign of 1644-5, this spirited novel centres on one of Scott's most memorable creations - Sir Dugald Dalgetty of Drumthwacket. This hard-headed Aberdonian contrasts tellingly with the weird and passionate Highland... -
Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices by William Ian Miller 9780192855817
RRP: $61.93$57.02William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a... -
Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages by Katherine Callen King
RRP: $73.50$59.09The powerful portrait of the glorious Greek warrior Achilles presented in Homer's "Iliad" imbued a particular soldier with transcendent value, linking 'soldier' with 'hero' in Western culture. Tracing Achilles' appearances in the works of poets,... -
Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola by Rachel Bowlby
RRP: $92.38$80.72The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries... -
Medieval Narrative: An Introduction by Tony Davenport 9780199258390
$85.55An introduction to the variety of medieval narrative, intended both for students and more general readers who already know some of the classics of the Middle Ages, such as Beowulf, the Decameron and The Canterbury Tales,, and who wish to venture further... -
The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation Derek Attridge 9781138850071
RRP: $79.78$70.10This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a... -
Concentrationary Art: Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts by Griselda Pollock 9781785339707
RRP: $207.90$167.64Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His ideas on concentrationary art proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and the Frankfurt School,... -
Correspondence 1930-1940 Gretel Adorno 9780745636696
RRP: $126.00$110.78'We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.' So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his... -
The Medieval Saga by Carol J. Clover 9781501740503
RRP: $33.58$29.90Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland-the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate... -
Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature by Mary Beth Rose
RRP: $54.60$52.19For most readers and spectators, heroism takes the form of public, idealized masculinity. It calls to mind socially and morally elevated men embarking on active adventures: courageously confronting danger; valiantly rescuing the helpless; exploring and... -
The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel by Gary Morson
RRP: $46.18$40.30Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works-wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy evocations of mystery, terse statements regarding ultimate... -
Children's Literature Comes of Age: Toward a New Aesthetic Maria Nikolajeva (University of Cambridge, UK) 9781138953130
RRP: $69.28$61.24Originally published in 1996. A detailed analysis of the art of children's literature covering world literature for children, children's literature as a canonical art form, the history of children's literature from a semiotic perspective, and epic,... -
Adult Comics by Roger Sabin
RRP: $79.78$70.10In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusement for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention.Adult comics are part of... -
Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction by William A. Cohen
RRP: $46.18$40.30Never has the Victorian novel appeared so perverse as it does in these pages-and never his its perversity seemed so fundamental to its accomplishment. Whether discussing George Eliot's lesbian readers, Anthony Trollope's whorish heroines, or Charles... -
Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women's Writing: Feminist Interventions and Imaginings Claire Bracken 9781032009803
RRP: $83.98$74.19Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women's Writing: Feminist Interventions and Imaginings analyzes and explores women's writing of the post-Tiger period and reflects on the social, cultural, and economic conditions of this writing's production... -
The Sun Also Rises: A Norton Critical Edition by Ernest Hemingway
$28.01This Norton Critical Edition includes: The text of Ernest Hemingway's best-known novel. Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Michael Thurston. A rich selection of background and contextual materials carefully chosen to enhance the reader's... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer by Alastair Minnis 9781107699908
RRP: $41.98$35.97Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age. Yet he was also a poet of passionate love, sensitive to issues of... -
Biedermann und die Brandstifter Max Frisch 9781138129702
RRP: $283.50$246.29Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.About the AuthorMax Frisch, Peter Hutchinson, Lecturer in German, University of... -
Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture by Russell A. Berman 9780803222281
RRP: $41.98$36.83Enlightenment or Empire is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the culture of European colonialism. The book opens with a bold reconsideration of the relationship between the Enlightenment and colonialism, at the heart of which is an... -
Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger by Susan Bernstein
RRP: $41.98$36.83In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into...