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Critical Practice by Catherine Belsey
RRP: €30.93€26.93What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part... -
Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World by Subcomandante Marcos
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639703Author Subcomandante Insurgente MarcosFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Victorian Christmas in Print by Tara Moore 9780230616547
RRP: €53.54€53.51Although people may not realize it, the modern Christmas book market carries on a Victorian legacy. An explosion of Christmas print matter reinvigorated and regularized the holiday during the mid-Victorian period, infusing Christmas with... -
The Connell Short Guide To Cormac McCarthy's The Road by David Isaacs
RRP: €7.13€5.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776991Author David IsaacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot by Karen Chase
RRP: €57.11€49.75How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind? These questions stand at the centre of Eros and Psyche, first published in 1984. In examining how three authors - Charlotte Bronte, Charles... -
I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995-1996 by Kathy Acker
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351641Author Kathy AckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 11mm -
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780140434781
RRP: €13.08€9.25Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful, gossiping English village during the early nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes... -
An Adventure by Vinay Patel 9781350102866
€18.74I'm not much now, I know, but I will be. So pick me Jyoti and I swear I will make us the greatest adventure you ever have. On a stormy night in 1954, a woman doomed to marry one of five men discovers the wildcard choice might just be the person she'd... -
Philosophy and Terry Pratchett by Jacob M. Held 9781137360151
RRP: €29.74€25.92Philosophy and Terry Pratchett is the first attempt by philosophers to explore themes in Sir Terry Pratchett's writings. It will appeal to both specialists and fans of Pratchett with serious essays written in a manner accessible to anyone who enjoys, or... -
The Avengers by Stan Lee
RRP: €29.75€21.36Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesStarting in 1961, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and their collaborators transformed the superhero genre with a series... -
Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) by Devorah Baum
RRP: €23.79€20.19In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish-even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and... -
Midnight and Other Poems by Mourid Barghouti
RRP: €15.46€10.64Midnight and Other Poems is the first full-length poetry collection to be published in the UK by this remarkable Palestinian writer, previously known to English-language readers for his highly-acclaimed autobiography I Saw Ramallah (Bloomsbury, 2004)... -
Follies Of God by James Grissom
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101972779Author James GrissomFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
My Life as a Godard Movie by Joanna Walsh
RRP: €18.98€11.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492648Author Joanna WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
Ovid Fasti: A Selection by Dr Robert Cromarty
RRP: €15.46€14.11This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid, Fasti 2.533-616, 687-852, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in... -
Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967) by Ana
€37.02Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967) focuses on a basic paradox: why is it that the so-called “Spanish economic miracle” —a purportedly secular, rational, and technocratic process— was fictionally portrayed... -
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies by Professor Jonathan Kramnick 9780226830537
RRP: €19.04€18.77A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice-close reading. Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan Kramnick offers a new and surprising account of... -
In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories by Robert Lyons Danly 9780393309133
RRP: €25.59€22.93Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multivolume diary. This book is made up of a critical... -
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius
RRP: €41.04€31.12Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century. Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in... -
Dionysus: Myth and Cult by Walter F. Otto
RRP: €19.03€16.95"This study of Dionysus . . . is also a new theogony of Early Greece." -Publishers Weekly"An original analysis . . . of the spiritual significance of the Greek myth and cult of Dionysus." -Theology DigestA sensitive analysis of the spiritual significance... -
Theocritus. Moschus. Bion by Theocritus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The father of pastoral poetry and his Hellenistic heirs.Theocritus (early third century BC), born in Syracuse and also active on Cos and at Alexandria, was the inventor of the bucolic genre. Like his contemporary Callimachus, Theocritus was a learned... -
The Living Days by Ananda Devi 9781999331849
RRP: €14.28€9.52A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, an elderly white woman, and Cub, a British-Jamaican boy, and drives her crumbling world into heightened delusion. The two struggle to keep their footing as... -
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin 9780816612284
RRP: €21.41€19.40This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky's studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle."Bakhtin's... -
Against the Professors by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: €29.69€27.83A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for... -
If Not Critical by Eric Griffiths
RRP: €44.61€44.51Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of... -
The World of Jane Austen by Brenda Williams
RRP: €7.14€5.28Through the novels of England's foremost woman writer, we explore the Regency world at the time of the Napoleonic wars, its manners, fashion and style, pastimes and entertainments. Jane Austen - loved now by a huge audience, thanks partly to modern-day... -
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: €10.70€7.68Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this... -
Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities by Stanley Fish 9780674467262
RRP: €35.64€28.16Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes... -
A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein by Karen Zumhagen-Yekple
RRP: €33.32€32.59Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his... -
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun 9780231195515
RRP: €35.70€27.72Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science SocietyWinner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of... -
Thomas Hardy by Geoffrey Harvey 9780415234924
RRP: €44.02€38.71Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. Author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy reflected in his works the dynamics of social, intellectual and aesthetic change in nineteenth-century... -
The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study by Thad Logan 9780521631822
RRP: €107.10€96.90The parlour was the centre of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender relations were frequently played out. In The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study, Logan uses an... -
Selected Poems by Roger McGough
RRP: €11.89€8.46An updated selection of Roger McGough's finest, best-loved verse. The complete span of McGough's writing, from the 1960s to the new millennium, is represented. 'McGough's trademarks: the craft worn as lightly as the crown, the jokes that are... -
Romances: The Last Plays by William Shakespeare
RRP: €21.41€15.89Completing the 8 volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare series, this final volume contains Shakespeare's four Last Plays - THE TEMPEST, PERICLES, THE WINTER'S TALE AND CYMBELINE. The beautifully produced, single-column text of the plays,... -
The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations by Diane Purkiss
RRP: €49.97€43.73'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets... -
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life by Kenneth Gross 9780226309583
RRP: €23.80€23.09The puppet can entertain or terrify, evoke the innocence of childhood, or become a magical entity, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets are often creepy things, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this... -
CONTESTED CASTLE: GOTHIC NOVELS AND THE SUBVERSION OF DOME by Kate Ellis 9780252060489
RRP: €23.79€20.87The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the... -
Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry by Thomas Carper 9780415311755
RRP: €27.36€23.99Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can... -
Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah by Jean Racine 9780199555994
RRP: €11.89€8.46Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero. Phaedra (1677)... -
Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny by Gregorio Kohon
RRP: €55.92€48.75Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny, Gregorio Kohon examines and reflects upon psychoanalytic understandings of...