Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Mador of the Moor by James Hogg
RRP: £95.00£84.99With an Essay on Hogg's Literary Friendships by Janette Currie and an Appendix on the Popular Context by Suzanne Gilbert Scottish popular tradition includes a group of stories about a King who has adventures - amorous and otherwise - as he wanders in... -
David Milch by Jason Jacobs
RRP: £85.00£60.17This book is about the life and work of David Milch, the writer who created NYPD Blue, Deadwood and a number of other important US television dramas. It provides a detailed account of Milch's journey from academia to the heights of the television... -
Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature: From the Sublime to the Uncanny by David R. Ellison
RRP: £30.99£23.80David Ellison's book is an investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism. Ellison's study traces the origins of Modernism to the emergence of early German Romanticism from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant,... -
Uneasy Sensations: Smollet and the Body by Aileen Douglas
RRP: £45.00£43.21The 18th-century comic novelist Tobias Smollett has often been criticized for the extreme physicality of his writing, which is full of scatological images and graphic depictions of bodily injury and disintegration. The author draws on feminist and other... -
Dumitru Tsepeneag and the Canon of Alternative Literature by Laura Pavel
£17.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564786395Author Laura PavelFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher Dalkey Archive PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Nature Translated: Alexander Von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth Century Britain by Alison E. Martin
RRP: £27.99£22.61This book shows how Alexander von Humboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public persona as they reconfigured his works for readers in Britain and beyond.Book InformationISBN... -
Dante's <I>Commedia</I>: Elements of Structure by Charles S. Singleton
RRP: £22.50£22.38Originally 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... -
A New History of Medieval French Literature by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
RRP: £58.00£50.09Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term "literature" as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the... -
Charles Nodier Pilot of Romanticism by Richard Oliver
RRP: £25.95£21.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815620730Author Richard OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press -
Filmspeak: How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies by Edward Tomarken
£36.98Filmspeak is an accessible, innovative book which uses specific examples to show how once arcane literary and cultural theory has infiltrated popular culture. Theory reaches us in ways we do not even realize. Issues such as the nature of knowledge or... -
Irony on Occasion: From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man by Kevin Newmark
RRP: £35.00£30.16What is it about irony-as an object of serious philosophical reflection and a literary technique of considerable elasticity-that makes it an occasion for endless critical debate? This book responds to this question by focusing on several key moments in... -
Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo by Yasco Horsman
RRP: £21.99£19.24What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? This study... -
The Novel in German since 1990 by Stuart Taberner
RRP: £90.00£70.59Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme, form, technique and style. However, common themes emerge: the... -
Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller by Jack Zipes
RRP: £135.00£117.28The 2005 bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth is an opportunity to re-evaluate the achievement of one of the great figures of the fairy tale and storytelling tradition, a beloved writer famous for The Snow Queen and The Little Mermaid, The Ugly... -
Dating the Sagas: Reviews & Revisions by Else Mundal
RRP: £40.00£32.46The Icelandic genre known as the Family Sagas, Sagas of Icelanders, or Sagas about early Icelanders consists of anonymous works, and the genre, as well as the individual sagas, are therefore difficult to date. This literature is also difficult to date... -
History, Myth, and Music - Thomas Mann`s Timely Fiction by Susan Von Rohr Schaff
RRP: £85.00£81.30Thomas Mann's response to the crisis of modernity and the catastrophe of fascism is defined by the thematic matrix of history, myth and music: this book is the first to explore the interrelations of the three and the first study to approach the music... -
Ovidian Transversions: 'Iphis and Ianthe', 1350-1650 by Valerie Traub
RRP: £95.00£84.99Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid's tale of 'Iphis and Ianthe' in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid's story of a girl's miraculous transformation into a... -
The Russian Graphosphere, 1450-1850 by Simon Franklin
RRP: £36.99£22.29The 'graphosphere' is the dynamic space of visible words. Graphospheres mutate, they are reconfigured with changes in technology, in modes of production, in social structures, in fashion and taste. The graphospheric environment can be public or private,... -
Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary by Tomislav Z. Longinovic
RRP: £22.99£19.60Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing 'the serbs' as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural imaginaries and rhetorical mechanisms that inform nationalist... -
Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony by Jennifer Bajorek
£64.88Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx. It argues for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking... -
Untutored Lines: The Making of the English Epyllion by Weaver
RRP: £90.00£80.58A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the London literary scene in the 1590s, is as much about rhetoric as about sex. So argues William Weaver in... -
Count Robert of Paris by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: £115.00£103.00Count Robert of Paris, condemned by Scott's printer as 'altogether a failure', was later prepared for publication by his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart , and his publisher Robert Cadell. What appeared was a bowdlerised, tamed and tidied version of what Scott... -
Five Fictions in Search of Truth by Myra Jehlen
RRP: £35.00£27.21Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works... -
The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy by David Lummus
RRP: £79.99£65.61What did it mean to be a poet in fourteenth-century Italy? What counted as poetry? In an effort to answer these questions, this book examines the careers of four medieval Italian poets (Albertino Mussato, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch, and Giovanni... -
The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas by Lois Parkinson Zamora
RRP: £30.99£23.80How can we know the past? How can we speak of it in literary forms? Why should we want to? Concentrating on the past as both the subject of fiction and as a force for inscribing fiction, The Usable Past traces the ways in which writers self-consciously... -
Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative by Anibal Gonzalez
RRP: £30.99£21.89In Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative, Anibal Gonzalez explores the impact of journalism and journalistic rhetoric on the development of Spanish American narrative, from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the... -
The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation by William Franke
£75.52In Canto XVIII of Paradiso, Dante sees thirty-five letters of Scripture - LOVE JUSTICE, YOU WHO RULE THE EARTH - 'painted' one after the other in the sky. It is an epiphany that encapsulates the Paradiso, staging its ultimate goal - the divine vision... -
Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixens Essays: On Gender, Nazi Germany & Colonial Desire by Marianne Stecher
RRP: £42.99£34.78Best-known for "Out of Africa" and "Babettes Feast", Karen Blixen -- often writing under the name Isak Dinesen -- was an iconic figure in Scandinavia and the Anglo-American world, celebrated as a literary star and a pundit in... -
Nature Translated: Alexander Von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Alison E. Martin
RRP: £80.00£71.78Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most important scientists of the nineteenth century. Captivating his readers with his vibrant, lyrical prose, he transformed understandings of the earth and space by rethinking nature as the interconnection of global... -
Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties by Carrie Smith-Prei
RRP: £58.00£8.56Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse on the political significance of the private sphere. Carrie Smith-Prei focuses on debut works by German... -
The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy by David G. Lummus
RRP: £22.99£22.85What did it mean to be a poet in fourteenth-century Italy? What counted as poetry? In an effort to answer these questions, this book examines the careers of four medieval Italian poets (Albertino Mussato, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch, and Giovanni... -
Three Sixteenth-Century Dietaries by Joan Fitzpatrick
RRP: £20.00£14.53Early modern dietaries are prose texts recommending the best way to maintain physical and psychological well-being. Three sixteenth-century dietaries contains Thomas Elyot's Castle of Health, Andrew Boorde's Compendious Regiment and William Bullein's... -
Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe by Victoria Browne
RRP: £135.00£117.28Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporary European contexts, including France, Italy, Germany,... -
Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadance by Liz Constable
RRP: £29.99£25.99When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of... -
Ends of Enlightenment by John Bender
RRP: £25.99£22.04Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European... -
Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy by Gerald L. Bruns
£35.22As a novelist, essayist, critic, and theorist, Maurice Blanchot has earned tributes from authors as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, and Emmanuel Levinas. But their praise has told us little about what Blanchot's work actually says and why it... -
Our Nazis: Representations of Fascism in Contemporary Literature and Film by Petra Rau
RRP: £90.00£73.28This is an analysis of the resurgent cultural fascination with Nazism since 1989. Why has a fascination with fascism re-emerged after the Cold War? What is its cultural function now, in an era of commemoration? Focusing particularly on the British... -
Modern European Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide by Julian Wolfreys
RRP: £31.00£28.55Modern European Criticism and Theory offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European 'theory'. The book focuses primarily on the thought of major voices in poetics, philosophy,... -
Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture by Adeline Johns-Putra
RRP: £90.00£64.42How might literary scholarship engage with the sustainability debate? Aimed at research scholars and advanced students in literary and environmental studies, this collection brings together twelve essays by leading and up-coming scholars on the theme of... -
Forms of Faith: Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Early Modern England by Jonathan Baldo
RRP: £90.00£13.34This book explores the role of literature as a means of mediating religious conflict in early modern England. Marking a new stage in the 'religious turn' that generated vigorous discussion of the changes and conflicts brought about by the Reformation, it...