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Dante's Epic Journeys by David Thompson
€41.27Originally published in 1974. This essay in comparative literature represents the first extended attempt to relate Dante's major allegorical mode to classical and medieval interpretations of epic poetry rather than to patristic biblical exegesis. It also... -
Rousseau's Venetian Story: An Essay upon Art and Truth in <I>Les Confessions</I> by Madeleine B. Ellis
€27.72Originally published in 1966. This book is primarily a literary study of Rousseau's account of his diplomatic experiences in Venice, contained in book 7 of the Confessions and written in 1769. The author analyzes Rousseau's methods of achieving an... -
The Novel in Letters: Epistolary Fiction in the Early English Novel 1678-1740 by Natascha Wurzbach
RRP: €130.90€113.18First published in 1969, The Novel in Letters is a collection of nine novels in letters, representative of certain tendencies in narrative technique and subject-matter between 1678 and 1740. The editor shows how the narrative attitude of the letter... -
A Symposium on Slavoj Zizek: Faith and the Real: Paragraph Volume 24 Number 2 by Edmond Wright
€32.02This volume of Paragraph represents the first collection of critical responses to be made to the work of Slavoj Zizek. It draws from a variety of engaged readers of his prolific output, judging it from philosophical, political, cultural and... -
Comparative Literature - Literature Studies - Cultural Studies by Andrzej Hejmej
€42.51This book is an attempt to diagnose the condition of (post-)modern comparative literature and to formulate its role in the media society in a multicultural world. Andrzej Hejmej reviews the current situation of an "indiscipline" in the widest... -
Olga Tokarczuk: Comparative Perspectives by Lidia Wiśniewska
RRP: €148.75€128.35- This book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk in comparative contexts. - The chapters range from myth-critical focused readings to interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives. - Tokarczuk’s fiction is read... -
Manuscripts in Italy by Peter J Lucas
RRP: €83.30€49.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866985901Author Peter J LucasImprint State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & StudiesPublisher State University... -
Spenserian Satire: A Tradition of Indirection by Rachel Hile
RRP: €29.75€21.32Scholars of Edmund Spenser have focused much more on his accomplishments in epic and pastoral than his work in satire. Scholars of early modern English satire almost never discuss Spenser. However, these critical gaps stem from later developments in the... -
Brecht's Tradition by Max Spalter
€41.27Originally published in 1967. Literary scholars often acknowledge that Brecht borrowed from a variety of traditions, including Goethe, Schiller, expressionists, naturalists, and realists, all of whom affected his work. However, they tend not to address... -
The House of Death: Messages from the English Renaissance by Arnold Stein
€41.27Originally published in 1986. In The House of Death, Arnold Stein studies the ways in which English poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries imagined their own ends and wrote of the deaths of those they loved or wished to honor. Drawing on a wide... -
The Swan of the Well by Titia Brongersma by Eric Miller
RRP: €83.30€79.61Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the Dutch poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the Well, in 1686. This is the first full translation of... -
Hoelderlin and the Consequences: An Essay on the German 'Poet of Poets' by Rudiger Goerner
RRP: €33.31€21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783476058171Author Rudiger GoernerFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint J.B. Hetzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel GmbHPublisher J.B... -
Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing by Deborah Parker
€80.03Michelangelo's extant correspondence is the most abundant of any artist. Spanning 67 years, it comprises roughly 1,400 letters, of which 500 were written by Michelangelo himself. Biographers and art historians have combed the letters for insight into... -
Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860: Heroines of Horror by Susanne Kord
€80.50The way deviant women - murderesses, witches, vampires - are perceived and represented reveals much about what a society considers the norm for acceptable female behaviour. Drawing on extensive archival records and published texts, Susanne Kord... -
The Politics of Regional Identity: Meddling with the Mediterranean by Michelle Pace
RRP: €52.35€45.74A keen analysis of the impact of European regionalism in the Mediterranean, focusing on the politics of representation and constructions of identity. The Mediterranean - as a region, as an area of EU policy and as a place on the fringe of a rapidly... -
Pinter at Sixty by Katherine H. Burkman
€22.84"... insights and expertise which all together furnish a useful addition to Pinter studies." -Modern Language Review Essays by both scholars and theater artists examine the work of British playwright Harold Pinter. The essays focus on... -
The Confessional Imagination: A Reading of Wordsworth's <I>Prelude</I> by Frank D. McConnell
€27.72Originally published in 1974. This book concerns the archetypal quality of Wordsworth's The Prelude, specifically the ways in which it develops and defines concepts of language, time, and narrative that influenced writers who came after Wordsworth. Frank... -
Printers without Borders: Translation and Textuality in the Renaissance by A. E. B. Coldiron
€32.61This innovative study shows how printing and translation transformed English literary culture in the Renaissance. Focusing on the century after Caxton brought the press to England in 1476, Coldiron illustrates the foundational place of foreign,... -
Academy Dictionaries 1600-1800 by Professor John Considine
RRP: €61.88€55.62This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici... -
Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity by Carmen Nocentelli
€60.18Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries-epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation-Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of... -
Walter Pater: Individualism and Aesthetic Philosophy by Kate Hext
€97.54This title explores how Walter Pater and his contemporary aesthetes were influenced by modern philosophies. Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic... -
Shakespearean Maternities: Crises of Conception in Early Modern England by Chris Laoutaris
€119.33This study explores maternity in the 'disciplines' of early modern England. Placing the reproductive female body centre-stage in Shakespeare's theatre, Laoutaris ranges beyond the domestic sphere in which the rituals of childbirth, midwifery and... -
Mador of the Moor by James Hogg
€102.88With 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: €101.15€71.60This 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: €28.55€28.32David 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: €53.55€51.42The 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
RRP: €28.50€21.12Apologies 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: €33.31€26.91This 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: €26.78€26.63Originally 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
€60.68Is 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 period,... -
Filmspeak: How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies by Edward Tomarken
€44.83Filmspeak 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
€36.58What 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: €29.75€23.23What 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
€84.00Diversity 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: €160.65€139.56The 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
€52.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763538992Author Else MundalFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)... -
History, Myth, and Music - Thomas Mann`s Timely Fiction by Susan Von Rohr Schaff
RRP: €95.20€91.17Thomas 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
€102.88The only scholarly monograph to focus on Ovid's 'Iphis and Ianthe'.Book InformationISBN 9781474448901Author Valerie TraubFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Russian Graphosphere, 1450-1850 by Simon Franklin
€26.53The '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
€23.81Vampire 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...