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The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature by Piero Boitani 9780521131070
RRP: $60.43$46.41Professor Boitani's latest book explores the areas of the tragic and the sublime in medieval literature by asking what medieval texts mean to modern readers. Boitani, who has written widely on medieval and comparative literature, studies tragic and... -
Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed by Jeff Love 9780826493798
RRP: $42.88$42.69A concise but comprehensive guide to Tolstoy's literary and philosophical writings, focusing on aspects of his work that students find most difficult. Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) is one of the most important writers in the Western tradition... -
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West by Anthony Grafton 9780674060258
RRP: $52.55$45.42In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common... -
Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Volume 1 by David MacGregor 9781787056497
RRP: $21.43$21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787056497Author David MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher 9780231162654
RRP: $42.90$33.85Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a... -
Goethe: Faust Part One by Nicholas Boyle
RRP: $46.78$38.98Nicholas Boyle begins with a fascinating survey of earlier versions of the Faust story. He then offers a detailed reading of Faust Part One, emphasising the poetic and dramatic coherence of the work and tracing its links with the thought and culture of... -
Lectura Dantis, Purgatorio by Allen Mandelbaum 9780520250567
RRP: $60.45$47.64This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume "Lectura Dantis", contains expert, focused commentary on the Purgatorio by thirty-three international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the... -
Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance by Laura Giannetti 9780801872587
RRP: $54.60$47.85At the turn of the sixteenth century, Italian playwrights rediscovered and recast an old art form-the ancient Latin comedy-to create witty, ribald, and intricately plotted plays that delighted Renaissance audiences with their clever reversals of gender... -
The Visible Text: Textual Production and Reproduction from Beowulf to Maus by Thomas A. Bredehoft 9780199603152
$65.01Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It... -
Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting by Harald Weinrich
RRP: $107.25$92.90"Our daily encounters with forgetting have not taught us enough about how much power it exercises over our lives, what reflections and feelings it evokes in different individuals, how even art and science presuppose-with sympathy or antipathy-forgetting,... -
Modern Italian Literature Ann Hallamore Caesar (Warwick University) 9780745628004
RRP: $35.08$31.28This authoritative and vividly written book brings readers into the heart of Italian literary culture from the 1690s to the present. It probes the work of major authors in their broad cultural context, traces the history of audiences and publishers,... -
Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History by Andrew Smith 9781526131911
RRP: $38.98$28.31Gothic death 1740-1914 explores the representations of death and dying in Gothic narratives published between the mid-eighteenth century and the beginning of the First World War. It investigates how eighteenth century Graveyard Poetry and the tradition... -
Why the Romantics Matter by Peter Gay 9780300144291
$87.71A renowned scholar's reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to them With his usual wit and elan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period... -
Dante and Renaissance Florence by Simon A. Gilson 9780521100182
RRP: $72.13$61.05Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal 'Florentine' readers, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Cristoforo... -
Wittgenstein and Modernism by Michael LeMahieu 9780226420400
RRP: $60.45$58.87Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary." But few books have really followed up on these claims,... -
Theories of Mimesis by Arne Melberg
RRP: $60.43$44.56Mimesis, with its connecting concepts of imitation, simile, and similarity, has been cited since classical times in the exploration of the relationship between art and reality. In this major study Arne Melberg discusses the theory and history of mimesis... -
New Essays on Umberto Eco by Peter Bondanella 9780521617574
RRP: $46.78$39.72There is a wealth of critical commentary on Umberto Eco in scholarly books and articles; this collection provides thought-provoking insights into topics that have attracted a great deal of attention in the past without repeating many of the arguments... -
The Amorous Restoration: Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France by Andrew J. Counter 9780198785996
$204.75When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new. The writers of the age, who included Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, and Mme de Duras, agreed that they... -
Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination by A. D. Nuttall 9780300185263
$39.47At the end of the sixteenth century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, dangerous and sexy. By the nineteenth century, they were perceived as dusty and dried up, "dead from the waist down," as Browning so wickedly put... -
Where Have You Been? by Michael Hofmann 9781250907943
RRP: $40.95$24.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250907943Author Michael HofmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries by R. R. Bolgar
RRP: $91.63$75.15Since its first publication in 1954, The Classical Heritage has become established as a classic introduction to cultural and intellectual history from the Carolingian age to the end of the Renaissance.Reviews'Mr Bolgar continually suppies concrete and... -
Boccaccio: Decameron by David J. Wallace 9780521388511
RRP: $33.13$29.46In Boccaccio's innovative text, ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace guides the reader through their... -
Counterfactual Romanticism by Damian Walford Davies 9781526171832
RRP: $39.00$34.79Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in which the shapes of Romanticism are conditioned by that which... -
The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
RRP: $52.65$41.07Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) is the most important of the Italian Realist School of novelists. This new edition of "The House by the Medlar Tree" ("I Malavoglia") makes the complete English version of his masterpiece available once more. The story of the... -
The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s by Winifred Hughes 9780691615578
RRP: $58.50$45.42Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publishing phenomenon in its time. In a vivid portrait of this subversive and discomfiting popular literature,... -
Naturalist Fiction: The Entropic Vision by David Baguley 9780521021623
RRP: $85.78$74.37This is the first major study of naturalist fiction as a distinct literary genre. It focuses mainly on French naturalist literature, analysing a number of key works in detail, but also draws examples from other national traditions, particularly from the... -
Tolstoy in Context by Anna A. Berman
$156.84Likened to a second Tsar in Russia and attaining prophet-like status around the globe, Tolstoy made an impact on literature and the arts, religion, philosophy, and politics. His novels and stories both responded to and helped to reshape the European and... -
In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature 1930-1980 by Victor Brombert
RRP: $46.80$44.91Through critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. Though they fail, by design, to live up to conventional expectations of... -
Darkness Visible: Philip Pullman and His Dark Materials by Nicholas Tucker
RRP: $17.53$13.07What do Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling have in common that has made both of their stories so successful? What does Pullman listen to while he writes - and who, or what, is Dust?Pullman's award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials has been appreciated by... -
The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation by Michael Wyatt 9780521848961
RRP: $206.70$160.70The small but influential community of Italians that took shape in England in the fifteenth century initially consisted of ecclesiastics, humanists, merchants, bankers and artists. However, in the wake of the English Reformation, Italian Protestants... -
Dante's <I>Commedia</I>: Elements of Structure by Charles S. Singleton
RRP: $43.88$43.64Originally published in 1977. This book contains four essays by Professor Charles Singleton: "Allegory," "Symbolism," "The Pattern at the Center," and "The Substance of Things Seen." These four essays treat four dimensions of meaning essential to... -
The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism by J. P. Stern 9780521024402
RRP: $81.88$65.64This book studies individual works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the 'dear purchase', an ideal of moral... -
The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and its Meanings by Michael Wachtel 9780521028141
RRP: $83.83$72.46The Development of Russian Verse explores the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky, showing how certain formal features are associated with certain genres and, at times, specific themes. Michael Wachtel's basic thesis is that form is never... -
The Cambridge History of French Thought by Michael Moriarty 9781107163676
$229.69French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, this book follows themes and developments of thought... -
A Companion to German Literature: From 1500 to the Present Eda Sagarra (Trinity College, Dublin) 9780631215950
RRP: $83.75$74.04Presents, in an immensely readable yet profoundly scholarly account, the history of German literature from the Reformation and Renaissance to the late twentieth century, in the wider context of Germanic culture, over the whole German-speaking area of... -
Derek Walcott by John Thieme 9780719042065
RRP: $29.23$26.60This book provides a unique account of Walcott's development as a writer in addition to being the fullest study of his poetry and plays to date.Discusses all his major works and includes information on his out-of-print and unpublished plays along with ... -
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman
RRP: $23.38$19.79In his brief life, Alexander the Great gained fame as the military genius who conquered the known world. After death, his legend only increased. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near... -
Renaissance Culture and the Everyday by Patricia Fumerton
RRP: $54.58$47.07It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender, for women to use needlepoint to cover up their misconduct and prove their obedience, and for people to cover the... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II by Marina MacKay 9780521715416
RRP: $52.63$44.46The literature of World War II has emerged as an accomplished, moving, and challenging body of work, produced by writers as different as Norman Mailer and Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi and Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and W. H. Auden. This Companion... -
Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900: A Critical Study of Major Fiction from Proust's Swann's Way to Ferrante's Neapolitan Tetralogy Daniel R. Schwarz (Cornell University) 9781119895022
RRP: $52.55$45.69An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz's precise...