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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath by Professor Anita Helle 9781350419667
$64.14With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath provides the most comprehensive collection of contemporary scholarship on Plath's work. Including new scholarly perspectives... -
Dancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine Translations by Red Pine
RRP: $31.18$21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596452Author Red PineFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Dario Krpan 9781912128464
RRP: $12.68$11.91In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, neurologist Oliver Sacks looked at the cutting-edge work taking place in his field, and decided that much of it was not fit for purpose. Sacks found it hard to understand why most doctors adopted a mechanical... -
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy 9780860916758
RRP: $37.03$29.70"Whilst others scarcely put a toe in the water, in The Black Atlantic Gilroy goes in deep and returns with riches." Guardian Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Caribbean Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism trapped in their respective camps,... -
Losers by Josh Cohen
RRP: $11.70$8.58You are a loser. This isn't a personal slight, but an impersonal truth of the species, writes Josh Cohen in this essay about love, literature and politics. Today, no figure in more ridiculed and reviled than the loser. In the wake of recent political... -
The Connell Short Guide To Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber by Erica Wagner 9781911187011
RRP: $11.68$8.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187011Author Erica WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Art of Poetry: AQA Love Poems Through the Ages by James Browning 9780993077890
RRP: $23.38$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077890Author James BrowningFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 231g -
Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment by Judith P. Zinsser
RRP: $36.76$28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112686Author Judith P. ZinsserFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Classics and the Uses of Reception by C Martindale 9781405131452
RRP: $83.75$74.04This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics. A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory plays, or could play, within the modern... -
The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha 9780415336390
RRP: $38.98$34.50Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such... -
Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture by Theresa M. Kelley 9781421405179
$105.40Romanticism was a cultural and intellectual movement characterized by discovery, revolution, and the poetic as well as by the philosophical relationship between people and nature. Botany sits at the intersection where romantic scientific and literary... -
Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses by Sandra Woien
RRP: $33.13$22.76This is a collection of critical essays regarding the work of Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, and author. Peterson began his career as a teacher at Harvard before receiving worldwide... -
Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ben Hutchinson
RRP: $17.53$12.58Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth... -
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: $54.58$47.85These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)-known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky-as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in... -
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words by Tom Mole
RRP: $19.48$13.36We love books. We take them to bed with us. We display them on our bookshelves. We write our names in them. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We take them for granted. But there's much more to them than meets the eye.; From how books... -
The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader by Sandra Harding 9780822349570
RRP: $50.68$44.64For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding... -
On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
RRP: $33.13$23.24Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political... -
The Golden Page: Adventures in the Literary Jungle 1978-93 by John Walsh
RRP: $48.75$28.59Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing -... -
John Donne's Poetry by John Donne
$29.70The texts reprinted in this new Norton Critical Edition have been scrupulously edited and are from the Westmoreland manuscript where possible, collated against the most important families of Donne manuscripts-the Cambridge Belam, the Dublin Trinity, and... -
After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
RRP: $21.43$15.15Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches... -
Geography: v. 5 by Strabo
RRP: $48.65$45.61The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, ... -
Thomas Tuchel: The Biography by Daniel, Tobias Meuren, Schachter 9781785907234
RRP: $33.13$23.95When Thomas Tuchel arrived at Chelsea in January 2021, having been unceremoniously sacked by PSG, few could imagine that a mere four months later he would be leading the Blues to victory in the UEFA Champions League final. Tuchel inherited a misfiring... -
We Have Only This Life To Live by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $44.85$30.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174937Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Function of Criticism by Terry Eagleton
$26.73This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason. The disintegration of this... -
King Lear: Arden Performance Editions by William Shakespeare
RRP: $17.53$15.58King Lear has ruled for many years. As age overtakes him, he divides his kingdom amongst his children. Misjudging their loyalty, he soon finds himself stripped of all the trappings of state, wealth and power that had defined him. Arden Performance... -
A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume I: Introduction and Books I-VIII by Alfred Heubeck 9780198147473
RRP: $93.58$81.28This is the first instalment of a three-volume commentary in English, compiled by an international team of scholars and first published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume the commentary by West (Books I-IV) and... -
Springboard Shakespeare: King Lear by Ben Crystal
RRP: $23.38$21.35King Lear is a towering drama of personal and national tragedy. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, taking a hands-on, performance-based approach, exploring the challenges and the rewards it presents to actors, audiences and... -
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: $51.66$37.07Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns... -
The Winter's Tale: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $15.58$11.29The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry. It concludes, moreover, with the most daring and moving... -
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 9780393927719
$27.85Briefly imprisoned for preaching without a license, he is believed to have begun writing the most famous Christian allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress, while in jail. The Pilgrim's Progress was published in 1678 (Part I) and 1684 (Part II). Edited and... -
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: $39.00$27.03"I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular (journal). I have myself lost recollection of much that was interesting and I have deprived my family and the public of some curious information by not carrying this resolution into effect."... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: $21.43$14.27ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.'... -
The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture by Gail Carriger 9781944751340
RRP: $31.18$21.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944751340Author Gail CarrigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Gail Carriger LLCPublisher Gail Carriger LLCWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker
RRP: $33.13$23.75'Queer: A Graphic History Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender' ViceActivist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction... -
Literary Trails: Haworth and the Bront s by Walford, David F 9781526720856
RRP: $29.23$21.35This light-hearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family; their lives and works. Set in and around the town of Haworth it gives a dual introduction to walkers and lovers of... -
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 9780811200684
RRP: $17.53$13.49Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination. Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of he... -
The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall 9780199335558
RRP: $17.53$12.58The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon that promoted a proud racial identity, economic independence, and... -
SuperJoe Does NOT Do Cuddles by Michael Catchpool 9781913747657
RRP: $23.38$16.17SuperJoe is convinced he doesn't need cuddles from his mum. He flies around the neighbourhood rescuing people from escaped tigers, runaway trains and raging rivers, all while battling his nemesis the Grey Shadow. Naturally, he refuses all cuddles. Until... -
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer: A Novella by Fredrik Backman
RRP: $40.95$23.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501160486Author Fredrik BackmanFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 135mm * 15mm -
Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
RRP: $44.85$32.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168885Author Raymond ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA Inc