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Modern Literary Theory: A Reader by Patricia Waugh
$56.04This book covers the key theoretical approches in modern literary theory, and includes essays and texts that are essential reading for any student of critical theory. It includes sections on Formalism and Structuralism, Feminism, Marxism, Postmodernism,... -
Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame by Cary Wolfe
RRP: $29.67$28.55Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in "Before the Law", Cary... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: $25.80$21.32A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a... -
Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living by Declan Kiberd
RRP: $16.76$11.35In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary... -
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 9780393963359
$29.86All discrepancies have been checked against the second English edition and the second American edition; the resulting Textual Notes include over 500 substantive changes. The text is thoroughly annotated, and the editor has added a "Glossary of Eastern... -
Asia in Western Fiction by Robin W. Winks 9780824812935
RRP: $27.03$25.74Offering insights into racial and cultural stereotyping and popular notions of imperialism, Asia in Western Fiction traces how Asia and Asians have been depicted in novels and other works of Western fiction, with an emphasis on works available in English... -
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents by Thomas K. Hubbard
RRP: $46.44$37.55The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period - from the earliest Greek... -
The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition by John Callow
RRP: $38.70$29.92"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star "Astute and thoughtful." History Today "An... -
Preface to Plato by Eric A. Havelock
RRP: $33.48$27.04Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by... -
Berlin Childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin 9780674022225
RRP: $24.45$19.83Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the... -
Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $14.18$10.31WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's... -
The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov by M. M. Bakhtin 9780340592670
$49.20Incessantly cited by critics, Bakhtin's work nonetheless remains relatively unavailable: partly through lack of suitable editions, partly because no individual text conveys all the key concepts or arguments. This anthology provides in a convenient format... -
The Real Kenneth Grahame: The Tragedy Behind The Wind in the Willows by Galvin, Elisabeth 9781526748805
RRP: $25.80$18.72He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 -1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up with his grandmother who lived on the banks of the... -
What Barfield Thought by Landon Loftin 9781666736762
RRP: $20.64$15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666736762Author Landon LoftinFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 200g -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers William Palmer 9781472145017
RRP: $25.80$23.09'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as... -
This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
RRP: $30.95$27.30"The publication of these two translations is an event to be celebrated by feminists of all persuasions." Women's Review of Books In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her... -
Guilt by Descent: Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy by N.J. Sewell-Rutter 9780199227334
RRP: $180.60$141.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9781586173975
RRP: $10.26$7.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586173975Author Joseph PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *... -
From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe by E. Jane Burns 9780268022327
RRP: $38.69$34.19The Middle Ages provides a particularly rich trove of hybrid creatures, semi-human beings, and composite bodies: we need only consider manuscript pages and stone capitals in Romanesque churches to picture the myriad figures incorporating both human and... -
Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer by Richard Bradford
RRP: $25.80$20.07The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of... -
Fathers & Daughters: An Anthology of Exploration by Ato Quayson 9780955507908
RRP: $21.92$15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955507908Author Ato QuaysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 320g -
Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle Patrick Gill 9781032095516
RRP: $51.59$45.58The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring... -
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 by Doris Lessing 9780006388890
RRP: $15.47$11.92The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'Walking in the Shade' begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing but her young son and the manuscript of her first novel... -
Cult Writers: 50 Nonconformist Novelists You Need to Know by Ian Haydn Smith
RRP: $16.76$15.43WHAT MAKES A CULT WRITER? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique or critically divisive, cult writers come in all shapes and guises. Some gain instant fame, others instant notoriety, and more still remain anonymous until a... -
On the Shelf: Revisiting Abandoned Scripts by Julianne Todd 9781910868256
RRP: $25.79$23.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910868256Author Julianne ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Thebes PublishingPublisher Thebes PublishingWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
A Tempest by Aime Cesaire
RRP: $15.47$12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362108Author Aime CesaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2019-21 Stephen Anderson (University of Oxford, UK) 9781350012608
RRP: $41.27$37.67This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2019-21 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be... -
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom 9780062048318
RRP: $20.63$15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062048318Author Marilyn YalomFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Hopkins: A Literary Biography by Norman White 9780198183501
$56.31`To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life/Among strangers': so begins one of the darkest and most overtly autobiographical of Hopkins's poems, written in Ireland a few years before his death. In this major new biography, more deeply researched, fully... -
George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety: Nudging Towards God by Ceri Sullivan 9780198906810
RRP: $90.30$82.22Contemporary nudge theory points out that people make good choices over issues where they have had past experience of similar circumstances, where there is reliable, substantial, and relevant information about the situation, and where they will get... -
Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad by Owen Knowles 9780198604211
RRP: $31.59$30.24'Scholarly, ambitious and scrupulous'. This is how the TLS recently described the Oxford Reader's Companion Series. In September 2000, the book which pioneered the series, The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens came out in paperback. Now the Oxford... -
The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters by Ovid 9780520242609
RRP: $38.70$30.04In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile - permanently, as it turned out - at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's... -
The House of Being by Natasha Trethewey 9780300265927
RRP: $16.76$14.78An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey “Searching and intimate, this impresses.”—Publishers Weekly In a shotgun house in... -
The Long Life by Helen Small 9780199592562
$48.76The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett,... -
The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book: Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels by Anthony Gary Brown 9780786493852
RRP: $28.37$23.70Now in its second edition, this expanded work catalogs every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in the 21 books of Patrick O'Brian's series on the maritime adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The novels, renowned for their... -
John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought by Gordon Campbell
RRP: $21.92$17.21This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The... -
L'Etranger by Albert Camus
RRP: $49.01$43.06L'Etranger has the force and fascination of myth. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an Arab, 'a cause du soleil', and finds himself condemned to death for moral insensibility becomes, in Camus's hands, a powerful image of modern... -
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre by Josie Billington
RRP: $11.60$8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776175Author Josie BillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Arthur of the North: The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus' Realms by Marianne E. Kalinke 9781783167876
RRP: $45.14$37.45The Arthur of the North is the first book-length study of the Arthurian literature that was translated from French and Latin into Old Norse-Icelandic in the thirteenth century, which has been preserved mostly in Icelandic manuscripts, and which in early... -
The Diary of Anne Clifford 1616-1619: A Critical Edition Katherine Acheson 9780367149130
RRP: $42.56$37.62Originally published in 1995, this book contains a full version of The Diary of Anne Clifford, alongisde an introduction and textual notes. Anne Clifford left one of the most extensive autobiographical records of the seventeenth century and, it was first...