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The Reality of the Fantastic: The Magical, Political and Social Universe of Late Medieval Saga Manuscripts by Hans Jacob Orning 9788776749354
RRP: £36.00£29.36The reality of the fantastic combines a 'new philological' close study of a fifteenth-century Icelandic manuscript compilation of fifteen fornaldarsoegur and riddarasoegur, AM 343a 4to, with an historically-based analysis of the manuscript's various... -
Romantik 5: Journal for the study of romanticisms by Robert W. Rix 9788771842111
RRP: £20.00£16.43The articles in this number of Romantik include new research on reverie and dream as the locus of metaphor in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; an enquiry into the Royal Swedish Society for the Publication of Manuscripts Relating to Scandinavian... -
Dark Continent?: Images of Africa in European Narratives about the Congo by Frits Andersen 9788771248531
RRP: £50.00£42.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771248531Author Frits AndersenFormat HardbackPage Count 692Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Zeitschriften ALS Knotenpunkte Der Moderne/N: Prag - Brunn - Wien by Lena Dorn 9783825369996
RRP: £60.00£50.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825369996Author Lena DornFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 776g -
Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages by Aisling Byrne 9782503566733
RRP: £76.50£71.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503566733Author Aisling ByrneFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 290g -
The European Nabokov Web, Classicism and T.S. Eliot by Robin Davies 9781936235650
RRP: £84.99£80.18Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov's Pale Fire has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot's philosophical position, particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot's later tendency for conservatism in... -
Literary Activism: A Symposium by Amit Chaudhuri 9781911343684
RRP: £20.00£14.05Literary Activism - activism that revisits and interrogates an idea of literature - emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia, where market pressures are effecting changes - on language, on the measuring of value, on the... -
Harris's Requiem by Stanley Middleton 9781842331231
RRP: £9.99£7.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842331231Author Stanley MiddletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Trent EditionsPublisher Trent Editions -
Changing Satire: Transformations and Continuities in Europe, 1600-1830 by Cecilia Rosengren 9781526146113
RRP: £90.00£64.42This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Changing satire demonstrates how satire... -
Out of the Gray Fog: Ayn Rand's Europe by Claudia Franziska Bruhwiler 9781793636850
RRP: £89.00£82.26"As to Europe-keep it in a gray, ominous, evil fog."-Ayn Rand (1905-1982) thus commented on the role of Europe in her key novel, Atlas Shrugged (1957). The same could be said of the way Europe features in her own biography and in the general... -
Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel: Rubashov and Beyond by Zeno Vernyik 9781793622259
RRP: £89.00£82.66Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levene's... -
Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal, 1600-1800 by Chris Mounsey 9781611486889
RRP: £46.00£42.05Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositions created by the official exclusion of banned sexual practices and the resistance to that exclusion through widespread acceptance of those outlawed... -
Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness: Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment by Brian Michael Norton 9781611485899
RRP: £43.00£39.49Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century "inquiries after happiness," an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern... -
Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918 by Nanette Norris 9781611478037
RRP: £83.00£13.06New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion... -
Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse by Roger Kimball 9781566634793
£28.17Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius-and pseudo-genius-at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch and Hegel, Kierkegaard and P.G... -
Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment: The World and Work of La Curne de Sainte-Palaye by Lionel Gossman 9781421430447
RRP: £43.00£37.42Originally published in 1968. The contribution of eighteenth-century Englishmen to the study of medieval life and literature is fairly well known, but it is commonly assumed that in France, the center of Enlightenment, no one-with the exception of a few... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 47 by Eve Tavor Bannet 9781421424415
RRP: £39.00£34.44Focused on conventions of technology, labor, and tolerance on the one hand, and on artistic intentionality on the other hand, these essays also address the implications of this past in our own research today. The first section, "Representing Humans... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 46 by Eve Tavor Bannet 9781421422145
RRP: £39.00£34.04The first section of this volume consists of a panel, "Transnational Quixotes and Quixotisms," introduced by Catherine Jaffe. It includes essays by Amelia Dale on how female quixotes differed from male quixotes in eighteenth-century England; by... -
Rethinking the New Medievalism by R. Howard Bloch 9781421412412
RRP: £26.50£22.82In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term "new medievalism" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal aspects of... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 42 by Dr. Lisa Forman Cody 9781421409511
£3.17 - £34.44Volume 42 explores material culture, the visual arts, literature, opera, and the stage during the long eighteenth century in France, Britain, the Americas, and China. These essays examine encounters between Europe and the Americas, the Orient and the... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 41 by Dr. Lisa Forman Cody 9781421405629
RRP: £39.00£34.04This volume's essays focus on the relationships between texts and readers, images and viewers, performance and audience during the Enlightenment in France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and North America. The essays range from exploring the... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 51 by David A. Brewer 9781421443423
RRP: £41.50£36.15A selection of the most exciting current work in eighteenth-century studies. Focusing on the fraught ways in which communities are defined, volume 51 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture showcases groundbreaking research in all of the disciplines... -
Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition by Cynthia Chase 9781421434094
RRP: £39.00£34.04Originally published in 1986. The ghastly fate of a drowned man brought to a lake's surface in Wordsworth's "Prelude" typifies a fundamental pattern in Romantic writing, argues Cynthia Chase. Disfiguration involves not only a departure from... -
Discontinuous Discourses in Modern Russian Literature by Michael Makin 9781349198511
RRP: £42.50£31.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349198511Author Michael MakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 256g -
Inventor of Love and Other Writings by Luca Gherasim 9780981808871
RRP: £14.99£13.02Translated into English, this title presents a discourse on the re-invention of love but beginning on a sombre note of suicide.Book InformationISBN 9780981808871Author Luca GherasimFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Black Widow PressPublisher Black... -
Crisis by Dinos Siotis 9780957574731
RRP: £9.95£6.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957574731Author Dinos SiotisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels: or the Kingdom of the Imagination by Donald P. Kaczvinsky 9780945636991
£88.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945636991Author Donald P. KaczvinskyFormat HardbackPage Count 183Imprint Susquehanna University PressPublisher Associated University Presses -
Machiavelli Redeemed: Retrieving His Humanist Perspectives on Equality, Power, and Glory by Robert Kocis 9780934223423
£100.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934223423Author Robert KocisFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Lehigh University PressPublisher Associated University Presses -
Kundera, or, The Memory of Desire by Eva Le Grand 9780889203273
RRP: £29.95£24.02This is more than a literary critique - it is a work of perception, of analysis that reveals a portrait of Kundera the novelist as one of the greatest demystifiers of our time. This significant work deals with all of Milan Kundera's novels up to his... -
Joseph Conrad - Between Literary Techniques and Their Messages by Wieslaw Krajka 9780880336512
£25.47Thirteen contributors from a variety of backgrounds tackle the use of irony, contrast, narrative, themes of belonging, Englishness, imperialism, portrayals of women, and conceptions of truth and evil as they were expressed in the work of Joseph Conrad. ... -
Myth and Modernity in the Twentieth Century Romanian Novel by Ileana Orlich 9780880336437
RRP: £38.00£29.44Ileana Orlich captures the shifting and subtle identities and continuities of Romania's literary tradition by concentrating on unfamiliar aesthetic and cultural landscapes, mythic archetypes, and modernist techniques. Examining a distinct and unusual... -
A Return to the Roots - Conrad, Poland, and Central Europe by Wieslaw Krajka 9780880335577
£25.51This study illuminates various aspects of the relationship between Joseph Conrad's literary work and his roots in Polish and East-Central European culture. In particular, it examines various aspects of Conrad's relationship to Poland-the evolution of his... -
Been There Read That!: Stories for the Armchair Traveller by Jean Anderson 9780864735720
RRP: £17.95£14.85English translations of short stories from around the world.Book InformationISBN 9780864735720Author Jean AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Victoria University PressPublisher Victoria University Press -
Responses to Modernity: Essays in the Politics of Culture by Joseph Frank 9780823239252
RRP: £49.00£41.80This book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of the First World War, and extending throughout the twentieth century.Book... -
Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee by Russell Samolsky 9780823234806
RRP: £27.99£23.66In this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates an apocalyptic event into its future reception... -
Regard for the Other: Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde by E.S. Burt 9780823230907
RRP: £81.00£69.21Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject... -
Lacan and the Limits of Language by Charles Shepherdson 9780823227679
RRP: £35.00£30.16This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision of Lacan's purported "ahistoricism," and how does the... -
The Rose and Geryon: The Poetics of Fraud and Violence in Jean de Meun and Dante by Gabriella I. Baika 9780813226095
RRP: £65.00£59.03We live in a world in which we watch our words, spoken or written. We do not wish to offend anyone by what we say. But consideration of our speech is not something new. As Gabriella Baika stakes out in this thought-provoking manuscript, worries about... -
The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner by Jane K. Brown 9780812239669
£67.46In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in... -
Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger by Susan Bernstein 9780804758543
RRP: £90.00£76.75In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and...