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The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler 9789357979719 [USED COPY]
RRP: £21.09£2.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357979719Author Arthur SchnitzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 445g -
Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony by Jennifer Bajorek 9780804758246 [USED COPY]
RRP: £63.00£4.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Serious Fiction: J.M. Coetzee and the Stakes of Literature by Duncan McColl Chesney 9781433134043 [USED COPY]
RRP: £80.10£35.76Serious Fiction explores the novels of J.M. Coetzee, in dialogue with key works of the European literary tradition and several contemporary masterworks of world literature, in order to flesh out an ethico-aesthetic ideal for the contemporary novel... -
To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola by Ilinca Sarifopol-Johnston 9780874135398 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00£26.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe by Simon Ditchfield 9780719099151 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00£20.53Conversions is the first collection to explicitly address the intersections between sexed identity and religious change in the two centuries following the Reformation. Chapters deal with topics as diverse as convent architecture and missionary... -
Victorian Prose: An Anthology by Rosemary J. Mundhenk 9780231110273 [USED COPY]
RRP: £35.00£6.46This engaging, informative collection of Victorian nonfiction prose juxtaposes classic texts and canonical writers with more obscure writings and authors in order to illuminate important debates in nineteenth-century Britain-inviting modern readers to... -
A Guide to French Literature: From Early Modern to Postmodern by Jennifer Birkett 9780333428542 [USED COPY]
RRP: £33.99£2.54In a lively chronological narrative, this new guide situates original readings of authors and texts within the literary, historical and socio-cultural contexts of their production and charts the mutations of printing and publishing, the growth of... -
The Eighteenth-Century French Novel: Techniques of Illusion by Vivienne G. Mylne 9780521282666
RRP: £30.99£23.80This book deals with the ways in which the French novel of the eighteenth century marks a transition from the long, implausible and often clumsy works of the seventeenth century to the masterpieces of Balzac, Stendhal and Laubert. For her study,... -
The Emergence of the Latin American Novel by Gordon Brotherston 9780521295659
RRP: £30.99£23.80This survey concentrates on the modern novel of Spanish-speaking America. Dr Brotherston starts with a long and suggestive introduction on the general topic 'settings and people', showing the growth of a sense of Latin American identity in the fiction... -
The Romance of the Canoness: A Life-History by Paul Heyse 9789357978262
RRP: £18.21£14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357978262Author Paul HeyseFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 272g -
Guernica Bull: Studies in the Classical Tradition in the Twentieth Century by Harry C. Rutledge 9780820332666
£24.97In The Guernica Bull, Harry C. Rutledge examines the use of classical motifs in twentieth-century literature, art, and drama. From the echoes of Plato's dialogues at the heart of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice to the retelling of the story of Harmodius... -
Modern Language Review (114: 1) January 2019 by D F Connon 9781781888926
£58.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888926Author D F ConnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research... -
Modern Language Review (113: 4) October 2018 by D. F. Connon 9781781887400
£55.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781887400Author D. F. ConnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research... -
Contemporary Fiction in French by Anna-Louise Milne 9781108468916
RRP: £22.99£20.66Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and... -
Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation by William Franke 9781009013819
RRP: £22.99£20.66Modelling knowledge as revelation and theology as poetry, this powerful new reading of the Vita nuova not only challenges Dante scholars to reconsider the book's speculative emphases but also offers the general reader an accessible yet penetrating... -
Dante and the Practice of Humility: A Theological Commentary on the Divine Comedy by Rachel K. Teubner 9781009315357
RRP: £100.00£90.28In this book, Rachel Teubner offers an exploration of humility in Dante's Divine Comedy, arguing that the poem is an ascetical exercise concerned with training its author gradually in the practice of humility, rather than being a reflection of authorial... -
Cervantes the Poet: The Don Quijote, Poetic Practice, and the Conception of the First Modern Novel by Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer 9781316517390
RRP: £85.00£76.60Cervantes the Poet travels from the court of Isabel de Valois to Rome, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, and Madrid's barrio de las letras. Recovering Cervantes' nearly forty-year literary career before the publication of Don Quijote, Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer... -
Scandal on Stage: European Theater as Moral Trial by Theodore Ziolkowski 9780521112604
RRP: £56.00£50.25New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are often more extreme than the creators had envisaged, to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture by Nicholas Rzhevsky 9781107002524
RRP: £54.00£48.90Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture... -
Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne by Ullrich Langer 9781107110281
£120.00Moving from a definition of the lyric to the innovations introduced by Petrarch's poetic language, this study goes on to propose a new reading of several French poets (Charles d'Orleans, Ronsard, and Du Bellay), and a re-evaluation of Montaigne's... -
Literature, Science, and Public Policy: From Darwin to Genomics by Jay Clayton 9781009263528
RRP: £85.00£76.60Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature can influence public policy concerning scientific controversies in genetics and other areas. Literature brings unique insights to issues involving cloning, GMOs, gene editing, and more by... -
Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Feeling and Practice by Kristine Steenbergh 9781108818025
RRP: £22.99£20.66This collection is an enquiry into compassion as an early modern emotional phenomenon, situating it within the complexity of European economic, social, cultural and religious tensions. Drawing on recent work in the history of emotions, leading scholars... -
L'Homme au Masque de Fer: Recit Tire du Vicomte de Bragelonne Roman D'Alexandre Dumas by E.A. Robertson 9780521169493
RRP: £25.99£23.23First published in 1915, this small volume contains the French text of the story of the Man in the Iron Mask, taken from the last section of Alexandre Dumas' novel Vicomte de Bragelonne. Edited by E. A. Robertson, the book was originally intended to... -
The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare by Deanne Williams 9780521037389
RRP: £22.99£20.66What was the impact of the Norman Conquest on the culture of medieval and early modern England? Deanne Williams answers this question by contending that not only French language and literature, but the idea of Frenchness itself, produced England's... -
Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic by Stuart Taberner 9780521860789
RRP: £58.00£52.01The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. Contemporary German Fiction focuses on the debates that have shaped the politics and culture of the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature by Evgeny Dobrenko 9780521875356
RRP: £49.00£44.50In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific... -
The German Tradition of Psychology in Literature and Thought, 1700-1840 by Matthew Bell 9780521846264
RRP: £61.00£55.04The beginnings of psychology are usually dated from experimental psychology and Freudian psychoanalysis in the late-nineteenth century. Yet the period from 1700 to 1840 produced some highly sophisticated psychological theorising that became central to... -
Dostoyevsky and the Process of Literary Creation by Jacques Catteau 9780521022781
RRP: £37.99£34.83Jacques Catteau's much-acclaimed book on Dostoyevsky, which has already received three literary prizes (and one medical) in France, appears here in English for the first time. It is an original and detailed attempt to re-examine Dostoyevsky the artist,... -
New Essays on Diderot by James Fowler 9780521769563
RRP: £55.99£50.64The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713-84) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of... -
The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry by Judith Ryan 9780521867665
RRP: £48.00£43.23German poetry has long held a special place within the Western literary tradition. Its major achievements include Luther's hymns, Goethe's unequalled poetic versatility, the Romantics' lyric songs and the challenging poetry of Hoelderlin, Rilke and Celan... -
The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin by Andrew Kahn 9780521843676
RRP: £46.00£41.47Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual... -
Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative by Anibal Gonzalez 9780521414258
RRP: £58.00£52.01In 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 Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture by Eva Kolinsky 9780521560320
RRP: £58.00£52.41One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture... -
The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism by J. P. Stern 9780521433303
RRP: £86.00£77.88This 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... -
Proust, Beckett, and Narration by James H. Reid 9780521828475
RRP: £56.00£50.25This a comprehensive comparison of the narrative techniques of two of the twentieth century's most important writers of prose. Using a combination of theoretical analysis and close readings of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu and Beckett's trilogy... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger 9780521553421
RRP: £45.00£40.99This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and... -
Crime and Punishment: A Stressed Edition by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9781107663756
RRP: £37.99£34.83Originally published in 1951, this book contains the stressed Russian text of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece Crime and Punishment. The Russian Edition of the Y.M.C.A. Press, Paris, is used as a basis for this edition. This book will be of use to students of... -
The Baroque Narrative of Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora: A New World Paradise by Kathleen Ross 9780521451130
RRP: £52.00£46.74Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, one of seventeenth-century Mexico's best-known intellectuals, was a writer of fascinating and complex narratives that exemplify the heterogeneous nature of colonial Spanish American prose. This book, first published in 1993,... -
The Representation of War in German Literature: From 1800 to the Present by Elisabeth Krimmer 9780521198028
RRP: £54.00£48.90The history of literature about war is marked by a fundamental paradox: although war forms the subject of countless novels, dramas, poems, and films, it is often conceived as indescribable. Even as many writers strive towards an ideal of authenticity,... -
Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700–1600 by Jutta Eming 9783111358659
RRP: £18.50£16.23The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700–1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg...