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Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray
RRP: €27.37€23.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533485Author Janet H. MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm -
Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks: Technology, Law, Literature by Edwin Bikundo 9780367548919
RRP: €47.59€41.72In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks. He imagined a future society of beings who consistently wrote and disseminated their personal diaries. Schmitt would go on to become the infamous philosopher of the... -
Juvenal Satires: A Selection by Dr John Godwin
RRP: €20.22€18.11This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Juvenal, Satire 6 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Satires 14 and 15, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction... -
How to Read A Chinese Poem: A Bilingual Anthology of Tang Poetry by Dr Edward C Chang 9781419670138
RRP: €23.80€22.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419670138Author Dr Edward C ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm)... -
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire by Helen Vendler 9780674945753
RRP: €32.07€25.48In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens's short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological... -
The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle 9780198815594
RRP: €16.65€12.08'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect, to almost all classes of persons.' Carlyle Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate 9780008425005
RRP: €13.08€8.63A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote,... -
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words by Michael Gardiner
RRP: €73.78€64.27Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin's thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays'... -
Lectures on Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank 9780691178967
RRP: €29.75€23.31From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major worksJoseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer,... -
New Selected Poems by Derek Mahon
RRP: €17.84€11.66New Selected Poems is a book of singular abundance and formal verve, featuring poems of rare vision and dramatic power by a consummate and resilient artist. Demonstrating the wide range of Derek Mahon's verse, from the early lyricism to a more expansive... -
The Cambridge Companion to Keats by Susan J. Wolfson
RRP: €30.93€26.17In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the... -
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin
RRP: €17.84€14.93Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of... -
And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: €13.08€8.71A Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New... -
A Catch of Anti-Letters by Thomas Merton
€19.53To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9781556127120Author Thomas MertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sheed & Ward,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes by Ferdinand Mount 9780747596479
RRP: €15.46€10.82Cold Cream is a sparkling autobiography in the great tradition: wonderfully perceptive, exquisitely rendered and bursting with characters and anecdotes of every shade and hue. A tender, moving and witty portrait of Ferdinand Mount's family and his early... -
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein
RRP: €24.99€21.61Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define... -
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith by Stevie Smith
RRP: €41.65€28.36When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day.Satirical, mischievous,... -
Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle by Christopher Shields 9780199253074
€67.90Aristotle attaches particular significance to the homonymy of many central concepts in philosophy and science: that is, to the diversity of ways of being common to a single general concept. His preoccupation with homonymy influences his approach to... -
The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs by Andrew Wallace 9781108791434
RRP: €35.69€32.61This book explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and renaissance Britain's sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome: a city whose name could designate the ancient, fallen, quintessentially human power that had conquered and... -
Poems by Emily Dickinson 9781857157048
RRP: €14.28€10.04An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books will have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classics ' 129pp and will cost 7. 99 against Bloomsbury's 9. 99. The... -
The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable by Eric R. Lybeck 9781912128204
RRP: €7.74€7.27One of the primary qualities of good creative thinking is an intellectual freedom to think outside of the box. Good creative thinkers resist orthodox ideas, take new lines of enquiry, and generally come at problems from the kinds of angles almost no one... -
Works: v. 5 by Demosthenes
RRP: €29.69€27.83The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
Latin Panegyric by Roger Rees
€73.04What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve? Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of Roman political praise-giving reveal about the circumstances and milieu in which they originated? Latin Panegyric brings... -
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton
RRP: €21.41€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471479Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by Martin Priestman
RRP: €32.12€27.13The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond... -
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm 9780300143102
RRP: €14.27€12.08Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: the story of the mystifying relationship between the brilliant and affable Gertrude Stein and her brooding companion, Alice B. Toklas"Janet Malcolm deftly captures Alice B. Toklas's legendary... -
Dubliners: York Notes Advanced by John Brannigan
RRP: €9.51€7.32Key Features: Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary... -
Coming to Terms: The Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film by Seymour Benjamin Chatman
RRP: €29.74€25.79'About the AuthorSeymour Chatman is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.Reviews"Coming to Terms is clearly a major effort in the ongoing project of expanding and specifying our knowledge of narrative and the terms and concepts... -
My Invented Country: A Memoir by Isabel Allende 9780007163106
RRP: €13.08€8.63The life story of Isabel Allende - one of the world's favourite writers - is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels. Just three when her parents divorced, Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents' home in Chile. She left... -
Cicero, pro Caelio: A Selection by Georgina Longley
RRP: €20.22€18.11This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's pro Caelio, 51-58, 61-68, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of 33-50, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed... -
Tacitus, Annals IV: A Selection by Dr Robert Cromarty
RRP: €20.22€18.11This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Tacitus' Annals IV, sections 1-4 (... non adversus habebatur), 7-12, and 39-41, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections 52-54, 57-60,... -
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm
RRP: €13.08€8.71In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St... -
The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium) by Kazutomo Karasawa 9781843845997
RRP: €29.74€26.62First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year. WINNER of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2017 Publication Prize: Best Edition The late tenth-century Old English Metrical... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by W. R. J. Barron 9780719055171
RRP: €13.08€9.40Dual text on facing pages, now revised and updated. Critically acclaimed translation now in its twenty fifth year. Extensive notes, glossary and introduction .About the AuthorW. R. J. Barron is Honourary Research Fellow, University of ExeterBook... -
Black British Feminism: A Reader by Heidi Safia Mirza 9780415152891
RRP: €45.21€39.72Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, 'black' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an... -
Hamburg: A Cultural and Literary History by Matthew Jefferies 9781904955757
RRP: €17.85€16.24It is a popular misconception that Hamburg is a coastal city. In fact, despite possessing Europe s second-busiest port, this 'amphibious city' lies some 65 miles from the North Sea. Its long-standing image as a 'city without culture' is also something of... -
Enlightenment and Change: Scotland 1746-1832 by Bruce Lenman
RRP: €28.55€26.00This second revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Integration and Enlightenment provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland, from the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to the Scottish Reform Act of 1832. The Act... -
Hamlet and Oedipus by Ernest Jones 9780393007992
RRP: €19.04€15.79A classic study in the psychoanalysis of literature, Hamlet and Oedipus investigates Hamlet's mind as it relates to the general psychological conditions foreshadowed in the Oedipus legend. Dr. Jones gives a comprehensive view of the Hamlet literature and... -
Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books by Professor John Carey 9780571204489
RRP: €15.46€10.19Pure Pleasure gives us fifty of the most enjoyable books of the twentieth century, chosen on a single principle - the pleasure they inspire. Pure Pleasure is an idiosyncratic antidote to the 'definitive' lists of twentieth-century classics. John Carey,... -
W. H. Auden Prose Volume 3 (1949-1955) by W. H. Auden
RRP: €47.60€32.94This is the fifth volume to be published in the ongoing complete edition of Auden's works, under the editorship of Edward Mendelson. It includes the essays, reviews, and other prose that Auden published or prepared for publication between 1949 -- when he...